Letter to the editor: Silent coup d'etat

When I was in graduate school, I had a professor who was a former Jesuit priest who became a professor emeritus of public administration at Virginia Tech. John A. Rohr wrote a textbook that I studied under his guidance. In “To Run a Constitution: The Legitimacy of the Administrative State” he warned of the rise and influence of the deep state.

Given what I learned at the Center for Public Administration and Policy, I am appalled at how media influencers today justify their obvious ignorance of how our constitutional republic was designed to function.

So the obvious question is, why is there so much adverse attention given to our president’s efforts to rein in the excesses of the federal government? Conservative scholars of our unique American experiment in self-governance are often shouted down when attempting to instruct the public about what it means to be an American.

The obvious conclusion is that loudest media voices want to fix something that ain’t broke. This is what can only be described as a silent coup d’etat. Jefferson once wrote, “The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.” The media influencers should take notice.

Dr. Bill Choby

Latrobe