Obama’s Corporatist Constitution
6th August 2014
Mickey Kaus blows the whistle.
Corporatism’s easy — you just get the leaders of society’s various bodily organs in a room and work the sucker out. It’s especially easier to impose regulations on a few big players, who can foot the bill or pass it on, than on a near-infinite number of small players. That’s one reason modern liberals tend to accept corporatism when they should know better.
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Maybe we shouldn’t read too much into a press conference, but Obama certainly seems to be groping for a formal argument here that would set out the circumstances in which he is justified in bypassing the legislature described in the Constitution — Congress — and acting on his own. The argument would be: “Where the key interest groups of society — business, labor, religious organizations and the MSM (who else is going to anoint a bill “common sense … legislation”?) — are lined up behind a policy, then if Congress doesn’t act, the President can.
In short, it’s an argument for bypassing archaic elected legacy institutions when they stand in the way of modern government by interest group elites.