{"id":509008,"date":"2022-11-11T04:46:46","date_gmt":"2022-11-11T01:46:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/elon-musk-is-right-divided-government-really-is-best\/"},"modified":"2022-11-11T04:46:46","modified_gmt":"2022-11-11T01:46:46","slug":"elon-musk-is-right-divided-government-really-is-best","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/elon-musk-is-right-divided-government-really-is-best\/","title":{"rendered":"#Elon Musk is right \u2014 divided government really is best"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a3ca6d932b7b\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a3ca6d932b7b\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/elon-musk-is-right-divided-government-really-is-best\/#%E2%80%9CElon_Musk_is_right_%E2%80%94_divided_government_really_is_best%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;Elon Musk is right \u2014 divided government really is best&#8221;<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CElon_Musk_is_right_%E2%80%94_divided_government_really_is_best%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;Elon Musk is right \u2014 divided government really is best&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<div>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n        <\/aside>\n<p>There are no saviors or miracles in democracy, only a grueling, soul-sucking, forever war of attrition. That is the enduring lesson of the 2022 midterms, as it is every election. And, though the results will be overinterpreted by pundits, and partisans will have all their priors confirmed, in the end, it is simply proof that American \u201cdemocracy\u201d is working.<\/p>\n<p>Overall, it was a dis<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>ointing night for Republicans, no doubt, considering the high expectations and the president\u2019s low approval ratings. Though, as of this writing, the GOP looks like it might win the House and has a shot at the Senate, as well. It\u2019s no small thing. But let\u2019s not forget, we\u2019re all winners when DC is mired in gridlock; not only is it the most accurate representation of the national electorate\u2019s mood but it means the system is working.<\/p>\n<p>Democrats have spent the past few years squeezing every globule of meaning from that word \u201cdemocracy.\u201d President Joe Biden delivered two historically divisive national prime-time speeches arguing that the only way to save democracy was to implement one-party rule.<\/p>\n<p>If our doddering president didn\u2019t look so ridiculous clenching his fists in front of a blood-red background, one might have found the spectacle semifascist. Today, Biden says that the election was a \u201cgood day for democracy.\u201d He\u2019s right, but not for the reasons he thinks.<\/p>\n<p>If your version of \u201cdemocracy\u201d only exists if your party runs every institution, it wasn\u2019t a good day. If you believe \u201cdemocracy\u201d means exploiting the narrowest of national majorities to lord over all the decisions of states and individuals, it\u2019s going to be a tough couple of years for you.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/musk-is-right-234.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"Biden, Harris\" class=\"wp-image-24612699\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/musk-is-right-234.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/musk-is-right-234.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/musk-is-right-234.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>President Biden and Vice President Harris attend an event hosted by the Democratic National Party on November 10. <\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Samuel Corum\/Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>If you want to destroy the legislative filibuster to federalize elections or cram $5 trillion in generational mega \u201creforms\u201d through Congress without any national consensus or input from half the country, condolences. You won\u2019t be adding fake senators from DC, in direct contradiction of the Constitution, or \u201cpacking the courts\u201d to capsize the judicial system. At least not until 2024, at the earliest.<\/p>\n<p>As Elon Musk recently noted when recommending people vote for Republicans, \u201cshared power curbs the worst excesses of both parties.\u201d (Oh, the hysterics that comment sparked. If it\u2019s not Vladimir Putin or gerrymandering or \u201cvoter suppression\u201d or a messaging problem or \u201cmisinformation\u201d sinking \u201cdemocracy,\u201d it\u2019s Elon Musk. No one who believes political discourse needs to be moderated and censored, and acts like voters have no agency, is a champion of American \u201cdemocracy.\u201d)<\/p>\n<p>Musk is right. Not only is it an excellent outlook for the independent-minded American but it has been the reflex of the electorate \u2014 a healthy, real democratic inclination. The inability of one party to monopolize power will either compel both to compromise, or, in times of deep division, shut down Washington and incentivize governors to take care of their own business \u2014 which is how our federalist system was meant to work.<\/p>\n<p>Democrats, should the GOP take the House, will whine that failing to implement their economic statism is tantamount to sabotaging the nation \u2014 and \u201cdemocracy.\u201d Biden will blame the GOP for \u201cobstructionism,\u201d as if the executive branch, rather than the legislature, is charged with writing laws.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">media<\/a> will again lament the dire state of our \u201cdysfunctional\u201d Congress. The Ezra Kleins of the world will lecture us about the need to fix an antiquated system. But, as we learned during the Obama and Trump years, the less Congress meddles in our economic life the better it is for everyone.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/musk-is-right-235.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas\" class=\"wp-image-24612700\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/musk-is-right-235.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/musk-is-right-235.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/musk-is-right-235.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas speaks during a joint <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/news\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"2\" title=\"News\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">news<\/a> conference with Mexican Foreign Secretary Marcelo Ebrard and Mexican Security Secretary Rosa Icela Rodriguez on October 13. <\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">OLIVIER DOULIERY\/AFP via Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Legislative gridlock does not mean Congress is powerless. The House, our most \u201cdemocratic\u201d institution, has a duty, as the left incessantly pointed out during the Trump years, of holding the executive branch accountable. That might entail investigating Alejandro Mayorkas for precipitating a border emergency, and Merrick Garland, who has politicized the Justice Department in unprecedented ways, targeting parents as domestic terrorists and ignoring criminal activity against pregnancy centers.<\/p>\n<p>Who knows? Washington is a target-rich environment. It is almost surely the case that Democrats will call any inquiries into the executive branch a crime against \u201cdemocracy,\u201d as well.<\/p>\n<p>Don\u2019t get me wrong, I\u2019m not contending that Republicans are saviors of \u201cdemocracy\u201d \u2014 though slowing the attacks on our institutions, from the Supreme Court to the Electoral College to the filibuster to the First and Second Amendments, is good news. Nor am I arguing that I wouldn\u2019t rather have people who agree with me winning elections.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m simply saying that people who confuse and conflate the word \u201cdemocracy\u201d with getting their way all the time are either frauds or fools.<\/p>\n<p><em>David Harsanyi is a senior editor at The Federalist.<\/em>\n                        <\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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