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Sigh. She has good ideas but she's an awful politician. "Oh let's make the CFPB a totally independent thing that exists outside the normal boundaries of the constitution - THAT'LL WORK OUT GREAT GUYS!"
Republican politicians will tell you that a tepid regulatory body fully vested under the Commerce Clause is illegal, then snatch children off the streets and disappear them without so much as a court hearing and insist they've fulfilled the wettest dreams of the Founding Fathers.
"Constitutionalism" is a fucking joke. It's Calvinball straight up to the SCOTUS and anyone who actually has to navigate this corrupt, fascist legal system knows it.
So - we should crack each other’s heads open and feast on the goo inside?
Yes, Kent, we should.
It literally has. The Republicans have been trying to shut it down for years because they couldn't corrupt it as easily. That it's becoming toothless now only through extreme measures isn't a flaw in the structure. Everything solidly in the executive is either as bad or worse. And this after being one of the most effective pro little guy organizations in government, including through the first Trump administration.
The CFPB is one of the few unmitigated Democratic successes in recent memory.