Jeff Flake in Sunday Political Talk Show interviews during 2020-2024


On Corporations: Deregulation counters ambition of federal workers

In his speech, Flake invoked James Madison's famous argument in "Federalist #51" that "[a]mbition must be made to counteract ambition" through the separation of powers. The system of checks and balances has often failed to work the way the framers intended, and the relationship between Trump and the Republican Congress is a case in point. Far from checking Trump's ambitions, congressional Republicans have made an implicit deal, agreeing to overlook Trump's dangerous unfitness for office and unprecedented corruption in exchange for Trump's willingness to advance Republican priorities like upper-class tax cuts, deregulation, and reactionary federal judges.
Source: The Week on 2024 presidential hopefuls Oct 25, 2017

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