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sarisataka

(21,799 posts)
Fri Jan 17, 2025, 12:38 PM Jan 2025

Come Monday will we see the beginning of the most powerful Presidency in the history of the country? [View all]

We will have a President who feels no constraint applies to him, be it legal, ethical or moral. Congress has not shown any willingness to stand up to him and taken direction even though he is not yet in office. In any case he has signaled he intends to go around them for many of his decrees. The judicial system has been generally supportive or at most given only tepid resistance. When push has come to shove, judges have backed down and capitulated rather than apply equal justice under the law.

Will it matter if the title is President, King or dictator if no one is willing to say "You cannot do that" and instead allow rule by fiat?

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