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Posted on 07/23/2025 7:22:37 AM PDT by DallasBiff
In this first year of his second term, President Donald Trump has claimed broad powers to unilaterally restructure much of how the U.S. government functions. Some of these assertions have gone completely unchallenged. Others have been litigated, and although lower courts have been skeptical of many of these efforts, the Supreme Court has been more approving. Trump has taken as much advantage of his new powers as he plausibly can, prosecuting his political enemies, firing independent agency heads, and dismantling federal agencies almost at a whim.
One salient question now is: When and if the Democrats return to power, how much of Trump’s damage can they undo? Let’s assume, for the moment, that the Supreme Court acts in good faith—that its views on presidential power are without partisan favor, and that it doesn’t arbitrarily invent carve-outs to rein in a Democratic president. What then?
Even with such (unlikely) parameters, the outcomes of this thought experiment suggest few opportunities for a Democratic president to make positive use of these novel presidential powers. Most of the powers that Trump asserts are either preclusive (preventing something from happening) or negating (ending something that is already in process). Few of them are positive powers, allowing the creation of something new, and even those are not permanent—the next Republican president could likely reverse most Democratic initiatives, sending the country into a retaliatory spiral.
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“how much of Trump’s damage can they undo?”
What damage?
Nobody conferred any 'new powers' on him.
He’s given the Dims quite a drubbing, though most of it is just exposing what they did to themselves, and us.
We know how much damage a Dem President can do, it’s up to voters to prevent that.
But, if you pull back the curtain, What Trump is trying to do is reduce federal government and move it back to the states.
We need to support this. More than that, actively reclaim state power as our Founding Fathers designed.
Corruption never goes away, that is the nature of man. But it is better to have distributed corruption closer to our control than a centralized corrupted govt.
A kingdom is a good form of govt IF you have a good king.
how much of Trump’s damage can they undo?”
“Damage”.
We already know:
What could be worse than opening the borders to unlimited immigration from the 3rd world
Oh the wailing and gnashing of teeth. 😆
Fixed it.
Yesterday an American Thinker article encouraged the GOP to get rid of the filibuster. You know the rats tried and will do it again if given the chance. Why can’t we be assholes? Trump’s not afraid.
> In this first year of his second term, President Donald Trump has claimed broad powers to unilaterally restructure much of how the U.S. government functions
Golly. You mean, he’s acting like every Democratic president has since Franklin D. Roosevelt first took office?
The Democrats have no power except that which they have stolen because they have no intention of contributing to society or the country. They have no intention of earning it honestly.
The Democrats want power to enrich themselves, not to contribute.
**What a Democrat Could Do With Trump’s Power**
What Trump could do with the mainstream media and the leftist judge power.
exactly. the only new powers were those assumed by the Dems and illegally forced on America
Democrats have the same power and we saw what they would do.
And it almost destroyed us.
I would argue for figuring out a means to make the filibuster rule permanent and unchangeable -- if at all possible.
I agree: the GOP is being naive to think that they are all noble and virtuous by keeping the rule in place while they preside, for the Democrats were brazen in stating their own plans to turn the Senate into an activism HQ.
So I propose this:
(1) Get rid of the filibuster rule;
(2) With that done, get the Trump agenda fully implemented;
(3) Implement a new rule: require any vote to change the size of SCOTUS -or- to implement any court "reforms" to have a super-majority of 67 votes to pass
(4) Just before the _next_ Senate takes over, re-institute the filibuster rule with a provision that it requires a 3/4ths vote to change the rule at any point in the future.
Gotta keep the Democrats from being Democrats.
Now Imagine a country with a President who hates America who has the courts and the media and America-hating demonicRATS and wobbly-kneed RINOs greasing the skids for him. Or her.
Like they haven’t already done enough damage when in power!
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