{"id":2082,"date":"2022-04-25T04:56:51","date_gmt":"2022-04-25T04:56:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2022\/04\/25\/institutions-and-credibility\/"},"modified":"2022-04-25T04:56:51","modified_gmt":"2022-04-25T04:56:51","slug":"institutions-and-credibility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2022\/04\/25\/institutions-and-credibility\/","title":{"rendered":"Institutions and Credibility"},"content":{"rendered":"

Key institutions appear to be working very hard to destroy their own credibility. The Roman Catholic Church, the Center for Disease Control, the fourth estate<\/a>, the military, the business 'community,' academe, the entertainment industry, and the government in all three branches, the executive, the legislative, and the judicial have very little credibility left.  Each of these institutions has 'earned' our disrespect as could easily be shown. To name some names: Bergoglio, Fauci, Milley, Biden, Harris, Pelosi, Schumer, McConnell.  My esteemed readers will have no trouble adding to the list.<\/span><\/p>\n

For now I refer you to Steven Hayward<\/a>:<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2022<\/strong> A few days ago I remarked that the Biden Administration would have to appeal the district court ruling striking down the mask mandate despite the political unpopularity of masks because preserving the power of the administrative state is a core principle of the left today. I just didn\u2019t expect The New Republic<\/em> to come right out and admit this point<\/a>:<\/span><\/p>\n

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Biden had no choice but to appeal. That\u2019s because Mizelle\u2014a former Clarence Thomas clerk whom the American Bar Association rated \u201cnot qualified\u201d based on insufficient experience when she was nominated in 2020\u2014wasn\u2019t repealing only a mask mandate. She was also advancing a slow-motion conservative assault on the post\u2013New Deal regulatory state<\/strong>. . .<\/span><\/p>\n

As I\u2019ve written before<\/a>, the right\u2019s big brass ring is to overturn the Supreme Court\u2019s 1984 decision in Chevron v. Natural Resources Defense Council<\/em><\/a>, which seemed at the time, believe it or not, to be a conservative ruling, but now stands as the only bulwark against virtually closing down regulatory agencies entirely<\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Key institutions appear to be working very hard to destroy their own credibility. The Roman Catholic Church, the Center for Disease Control, the fourth estate, the military, the business 'community,' academe, the entertainment industry, and the government in all three branches, the executive, the legislative, and the judicial have very little credibility left.  Each of … Continue reading “Institutions and Credibility”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[163,56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-leftism-and-political-correctness","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2082","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2082"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2082\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}