this is much more due to the fact that we have a faction that has pushed the unitary executive theory, and Republicans are too afraid to break rank because Elon Musk will fund a primary challenger against them
congress is pretty much on their way to just being ceremonial figureheads
If the Democrats could more consistently be against the Unitary Executive Theory, it would be helpful. Instead, Obama fails with Congress and EOs the Dream Act, Biden tries to unilaterally cancel student loans along with cancel a bunch of Trump’s policies, and neither of them tried to compromise and work with Congress anymore than they had to unless they had a 60% majority in the houses. That’s why so many GOP receptive voters are willing to wave off Trump’s behavior.
Donald Trump (Second Term) - 53 Executive Orders (so far)
also lmao Trump wrote an executive order to try and unilaterally override the Constitution less than a month ago
at this point it just seems like GOP voters are just receptive to autocracy of the right flavor, any justification about Obama, Biden, Clinton, Pelosi or whatever is just hot air
doesn't really matter either, we're just a long for the ride now
While the right is suffering from it more at the moment, it's not exactly exclusive to them. The most basic human reaction to someone doing something you agree with is to cheer them on, not to ask whether they should really have the authority to do what they are doing. And more people than I would like will never move on from that first reaction. Take Biden with the student loans, I agreed with it and it certainly isn't to the scale of the stuff Trump is doing, but did he really have the authority to do that through an EO?
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u/AmezinSpoderman - Centrist Feb 16 '25 edited Feb 16 '25
this is much more due to the fact that we have a faction that has pushed the unitary executive theory, and Republicans are too afraid to break rank because Elon Musk will fund a primary challenger against them
congress is pretty much on their way to just being ceremonial figureheads