"We have at last found a global villain who matches the bugbear — an ill-informed violent despot who seems to enjoy carnage for its own sake, and who has the power and will to project terror and violence anywhere on earth for any reason or none.
That global villain is, of course, President Donald Trump." https://t.co/T21ZEF0C8k
@AppleNews@AlexisCoe “Either way, the presidency rests on permissions Congress writes,” says @AlexisCoe. “Bad presidents are temporary. Congress is the through-line — and it keeps feeding a fire that will not spare it.”
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@AppleNews@AlexisCoe “Partisanship didn’t just dull Congress’ oversight of the president, it rewired it,” writes @AlexisCoe, who contends that when one party controls Congress and the White House, Congress “cede[s] power to the president to cover their own asses.”
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@AppleNews@AlexisCoe “The modern executive branch is a creature made monstrous by what George Washington called ‘unprincipled men,’” writes @AlexisCoe. “The Framers had another name for them: Congress.”
Read about how Congress is giving up its power: https://t.co/KxDCJ9UcCR
@AppleNews “The Founders missed Frankenstein by 30 years and the Mar-a-Lago face by a few hundred more. But they may have recognized the presidency we have now: a grotesque concentration of authority in the hands of Trump.”
More from @AlexisCoe: https://t.co/KxDCJ9UcCR