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Warning, pedantic-ness ahead: Both parties + press + voters have been super comfortable with the Exec branch using EOs to expand it's power (ex:Reagan,EO12333)
by WarOnPrivacy 2y ago
Warning, pedantic-ness ahead:
Both parties + press + voters have been super comfortable with the Exec branch using EOs to expand it's power (ex:Reagan,EO12333). It seems to be driven by 'We like it when our guy does things'.
I counter with (or try to):
Not holding a reasonable PotUS accountable
gifts power to the unreasonable one that follows.
I don't think P+P+V understand this, however.
Most disheartening is the decades of press apathy - because holding the powerful to account it is their actual, constitutionally-protected day job.
- keernan 2y ago>Most disheartening is the decades of press apathy - because holding the powerful to account High expectations of a press owned by the powerful