3 ms·
Yes, too much emphasis is put on Trump. He's just the President. This crisis has been 80 years in the making. It's the Supreme Court that has expanded the powe
by zarzavat 10mo ago
Yes, too much emphasis is put on Trump. He's just the President. This crisis has been 80 years in the making.
It's the Supreme Court that has expanded the powers of the President, and previously of the Federal government, far beyond what was ever intended.
By allowing the federal government to dominate the states, the Supreme Court created a position of unrivalled power.
Trump may be an evil narcissist by the standards of normal people, but there's plenty of those sorts of people in politics. That's why you have a constitution.
- JumpinJack_Cash 10mo agoAbsolutely! The U.S. is defacto a Russia or China with a lower 'government expenditure/GDP ratio' But that is not that much of a consolation if the government is allowed to pick winners and losers for kleptocracy or there is strong central planning and oversight on what should independent institutions
- gred 10mo ago> It's the Supreme Court that has expanded the powers of the President Sort of, but Congress also wrote a bunch of pretty broad, vague laws, delegating a significant amount of power to the executive via agency rulemaking, and it turns out the agencies are part of the executive branch and have to do what the head of the executive branch says they have to do (within the limits of those broad, vague laws). If Congress can't get back to smaller, simpler, more specific laws, and they continue to pass the burden of this complexity over to the executive branch to figure out, the executive branch will continue to wield outsize power.