“nothing he proposes to stand for can actually be achieved by a POTUS. We don’t elect emperors”
Don’t forget about Supreme Court nominations. This, in my humble opinion, is the greatest danger to our freedoms. Forget all the veto powers and executive orders... it trumps them all on the power scale and it seriously dangerous.
You can’t directly force things into law, but you can damn well steer things in your direction for many years to come.
“You can’t directly force things into law, but you can damn well steer things in your direction for many years to come.”
True. I did mention the SCOTUS in my first comment and also that such appointments do nothing more than act as a temporary patch to a self destructing process as we now have.
No matter how many bandaids get put on an infected limb, if the infection isn’t treated, it’ll go to gangrene. Then, the only option left is the knife and a lot of trauma.
Fix the problem at the source of infection, not as attempts at addressing the symptoms.