Today on The Editors podcast, Charlie takes it to the next level with his vehement protestations against Biden’s student-loan-forgiveness plan.
“I consider this to be a constitutional crisis,” he said. “I think that from start to finish, we are witnessing a president test the established legal order of the United States. . . . His broader party know that he’s not allowed to. But he went ahead and willfully did it anyway.”
Charlie has made his stance on this issue very clear in recent weeks, but he’s quick to point out that Biden is continuing to make the matter even worse. Legal challenges, albeit not many, have been arising, but Charlie reminds us that the administration is simply responding to them “by changing the law on the fly,” and this “is astonishing.”
These vast, sweeping changes are deeply out of line with our Founding documents. “To go back to first principles,” he says, “this is why we have a Congress. This is why we don’t have a dictatorship. Nothing we have seen from the Biden admin in the last two months related to this executive order would’ve been different in a dictatorship. Every decision’s been executive.”
He goes on to lay out the three main reasons we have a Congress, and how it is for the protection of our rights that this system was put into place. Now, Biden’s initial action and subsequent changes are causing mass chaos, and Charlie says, “It is what James Madison would’ve considered to be tyranny.”
Echoing the emphatic exclamations of Mrs. Thatcher, he finishes with a warning to listeners: “No, no, no. This is a constitutional crisis, and I really fear for the future of our system if it’s not remedied.”
To hear this thought-provoking rant in all its accented glory, along with Michael’s take on a Russia–Ukraine escalation, and a weather report from west Florida, tune in below.