{"id":29982,"date":"2025-07-20T09:55:59","date_gmt":"2025-07-20T13:55:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/freethepeople.org\/?p=29982"},"modified":"2025-07-18T13:37:24","modified_gmt":"2025-07-18T17:37:24","slug":"reversing-inflation-with-republican-constitutionalists-starting-in-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/freethepeople.org\/reversing-inflation-with-republican-constitutionalists-starting-in-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Reversing Inflation with Republican Constitutionalists, Starting in 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"

President Trump can start reversing inflation, but only if constitutionalist candidates step up and voters make Trump step up. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The parties look set to offer USA voters only two options in 2026: Democrat politicians who are Progressive<\/a> socialists<\/a> always, or Republican politicians who follow President Trump always. <\/p>\n

Following Trump always is mistaken. Trump signs lots of executive orders that say how he will constitutionally exert executive power, but he then always obeys unconstitutional<\/a> judicial opinions<\/a>. Further, he unconstitutionally advances Progressive spending<\/a> and regulation<\/a>. <\/p>\n

None of the above are what majorities of the USA people want: reversing<\/a> inflation<\/a>. <\/p>\n

Inflation is driven by spending<\/a>, which is mostly unconstitutional, and by regulations<\/a>, which are fully unconstitutional<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Trump isn\u2019t stopping the unconstitutional spending<\/a>, and doesn\u2019t even consider not enforcing regulations. He isn\u2019t even recommending to congressmen that they slash spending or formally repeal statutes<\/a>. <\/p>\n

Republican majorities aren\u2019t sponsoring bills<\/a> and forcing votes<\/a> to slash spending or repeal statutes<\/a>. <\/p>\n

Democrats never will<\/a>. <\/p>\n

Current Republican governance is more of the same spending, lawmaking, and regulating by Progressive congressional majorities and presidents<\/a>. <\/p>\n

Republicans hope to get voters to excuse the spending by offering tax breaks to certain blocs of voters<\/a>. <\/p>\n

This is d\u00e9j\u00e0 vu<\/em> all over again<\/a>: it\u2019s just like the Covid stimulus checks. Progressives used Covid as a rationalization for massive borrowing and spending. On the first Covid stimulus, Thomas Massie pointed out that each family would on average owe another $60,000 but would receive checks for less than $3,000<\/a>. <\/p>\n

Almost no one currently in office is worth keeping. <\/p>\n

Almost every Republican currently in office is supporting most all of Trump\u2019s Progressive spending and tariffs<\/a>. By their actions<\/a> and their cheerleading, these Republicans are showing that in practice they are Progressives<\/a>. <\/p>\n

Voters need real alternatives. Democrats aren\u2019t alternatives. Voters need Republican constitutionalists. <\/p>\n

Voters need the Republican primaries to feature challenges by constitutionalists of essentially every Republican official who\u2019s up for election—local, state, and national. <\/p>\n

In 2026, time will be on constitutionalists\u2019 side. Years of massive money inflation<\/a> will keep trickling their way into product-price inflation<\/a>. Voters will need a way out. <\/p>\n

In 2028, time won\u2019t be on constitutionalists\u2019 side, if constitutionalists wait until then to run for offices they could run for in 2026. Waiting would give Republican Progressives time to lose in 2026 and then in 2028 use fresh infusions of crony money to fake that they\u2019re constitutionalists. <\/p>\n

Below are key actions for constitutionalists to campaign on in 2026 and to then get underway. <\/p>\n

Genuine Half-Reciprocal Tariffs<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Repeal delegation of tariff-setting power to presidents. Repeal Trump\u2019s tariffs<\/a>. Debate replacing all current tariffs with tariffs set product-by-product at half the tariffs charged by each other nation\u2019s government on our people\u2019s products<\/a>. <\/p>\n

Substantial Cuts in Total Spending<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Pass a single overall-total appropriation that\u2019s 20% lower than the current-year overall-total appropriation<\/a>. Make the executive use his executive power to allocate line-item budgets<\/a>. Each year do these same things again. <\/p>\n

Repeals of Statutes, Which Also Repeal Regulations<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Mostly, repeal each statute that doesn\u2019t pass all of the following six simple pass\/fail tests: (1) No misleading parts. (2) Only uses powers enumerated for the national government. (3) No delegation of legislative power. (4) No grabs of executive power. (5) No grabs of judicial power. (6) Not noncritical, complex, or long, and not helping make the total corpus of law incomprehensibly complex or long<\/a>. <\/p>\n

Election\/Apportionment Process Upgrades<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Require that election results must be readily auditable in real time, and that pools of votes must be untainted<\/a>:<\/p>\n