> At a basic level they’re happening because Republicans want them to happen.

At a basic level they're happening because 9A and 10A have been cheerfully ignored for a very long time:

https://grokipedia.com/page/United_States_Bill_of_Rights#nin...

https://grokipedia.com/page/United_States_Bill_of_Rights#ten...

The last century has been a slow tale of scope- and debt-creep.

“If something cannot go on forever, it will stop.” ― Herbert Stein, What I Think: Essays on Economics, Politics, and Life