So the biggest myth in America today is that the people who we elect to run the government are the ones who actually run the government.

They don't.

It is a cancerous federal bureaucracy in the federal government that actually runs the show today

that increasingly views even people like me even if I'm

successfully elected as US president view me as a polite little inconvenience that

comes and goes every few years but that it really is the permanent inconvenience that's

the comes and goes every few years, but that it really is the permanent bureaucracy that

actually runs the show.

And part of the reason they view it that way is that's exactly the way the

country is actually governed, and it's invisible to most Americans.

We're taught growing up that there's three branches of government, the executive, the legislative

and the judicial, that we have a system of checks and balances where each one of those branches checks the other.

That becomes a farce when a fourth branch of government, the administrative state, actually operates outside of that system of checks and balances.

And the dirtiest part of how it was created is that that wasn't just an accident of history.

It was as though it was by design. And I think it's the single

greatest threat to not only capitalism though that does create a regulatory state

that impedes economic progress in America.

It's also the single greatest threat to our constitutional republic,

and it's not going to be something that happens in the future.

It's a threat as it exists today in the mundane reality of how that plays out in real life.

And today I'm joined by somebody who knows about the details of how that plays out in real life.

Philip Howard, he's the chairman of a nonprofit called Common Good, but he's also been an attorney at

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