Multiple things can be true at once. The US can have limited term executive, and could have given too much unilateral power from congress to the executive. A t

Multiple things can be true at once. The US can have limited term executive, and could have given too much unilateral power from congress to the executive. A two-term/8 year King is still a King. The way the US was structured was specifically to spread power amongst a lot of people with competing interests, and congressional legislation in the last hundred years has undermined that ideal. PS - Plus a lot of people forget that the whole "two term" thing was only a TRADITION until 1951. That's what I mean by "turn-key despot," traditions are fine until someone occupies the office who doesn't care about traditions, then you need a legal backstop. Giving up power before it is a problem is incredibly patriotic because it is an insurance against the worst future.