{"id":16801,"date":"2025-03-16T14:25:37","date_gmt":"2025-03-16T14:25:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=16801"},"modified":"2025-03-16T14:25:38","modified_gmt":"2025-03-16T14:25:38","slug":"with-executive-order-avalanche-trump-continues-trend-toward-a-monarchical-presidency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=16801","title":{"rendered":"With Executive Order Avalanche, Trump Continues Trend Toward a Monarchical Presidency"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;because executive branch officials interpret and enforce thickets of laws and administrative rules under which we try to live, guidance from the boss is powerful. Interpreted one way, a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/2024\/04\/24\/supreme-court-takes-up-atfs-unilateral-ghost-gun-rules\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">rule regulating unfinished gun parts<\/a>&nbsp;leaves people free to pursue their hobbies; interpreted another, and those owning the parts are suddenly felons. The president can push interpretations either way.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/2025\/01\/22\/with-executive-order-avalanche-trump-continues-trend-toward-a-monarchical-presidency\">https:\/\/reason.com\/2025\/01\/22\/with-executive-order-avalanche-trump-continues-trend-toward-a-monarchical-presidency<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;because executive branch officials interpret and enforce thickets of laws and administrative rules under which we try to live, guidance from the boss is powerful. Interpreted one way, a rule regulating unfinished gun parts leaves people free to pursue their hobbies; interpreted another, and those owning the parts are suddenly felons. The president can push interpretations either way.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/reason.com\/2025\/01\/22\/with-executive-order-avalanche-trump-continues-trend-toward-a-monarchical-presidency\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[221,694,222,1034,170],"class_list":["post-16801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-donald-trump","tag-power","tag-president","tag-presidential-power","tag-trump"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16801","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16801"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16801\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16802,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16801\/revisions\/16802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}