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It is very hard to imagine the legislative process would change much even if Trump is the president I don't find it hard to imagine at all; for example: Trump
by hga 11y ago
It is very hard to imagine the legislative process would change much even if Trump is the president
I don't find it hard to imagine at all; for example:
Trump to the American public in 2018: "Please elect this slate of high energy candidates and turn out of office these traitors to the American people."
With of course his preceding dealings with the Congress based upon such threats; what are they and the rest of the establishment going to do, call him Hitler again?
Do you remember how Reagan managed to get his programs passed by a House lead by a Communist sympathizer who said he was "the most ignorant man who had ever occupied the White House", "Herbert Hoover with a smile", and "a cheerleader for selfishness," and who's "policies meant that his presidency was 'one big Christmas party for the rich.'" (All quotes from Wikipedia's article on Tip O'Neil, and there's worse out there.)
The rest of your posting is on issues of importance but that don't even hit the top 5, probably top 10 of what the people who are supporting Trump care about ... especially if the government is "fundamentally transformed" in to one that isn't trying to destroy them.
As for those government employees you base some hopes on, anyone who genuinely wants to change things will abolish the current "civil 'servant'" system and return us to an updated spoils system where they're actually held accountable for their actions. Given how many Baby Boomers in it are retiring right now, it wouldn't even be all that messy.
Now, I'm not saying this is what Trump will do, but it's just the barest of what he could do if he's not accepting "business as usual" with its inevitable fatal end for the country.
And while we're talking about the branches of the Federal government, clipping the judiciary's wings with the end of the last sentence of paragraph 2 of section 2 of article III shows our Founders had a clue about its dangers.