If Cruz was able to wield the authority of an owner and CEO of a company would he get results? Or if Trump was one freshman senator in an exclusive and archaically stratified rich man’s club, how effective would he be? Saying one man is effective and the other not so without examining the environment in which they operate is misleading. The presidency is the top executive position in a POLITICAL system, where other players have power and authority. I had the same issue with Ross Perot back in the day that I have with the Donald Trump today. He’s no Eisenhower, the last person for whom the presidency was his first elective office.
“If Cruz was able to wield the authority of an owner and CEO of a company would he get results? Or if Trump was one freshman senator in an exclusive and archaically stratified rich man’s club, how effective would he be?”
To be blunt? I dont care.
Theory isn’t a substitute for results and evidence. Right now Cruz goes from one senate defeat after another with an apparent GOP majority. That tells me that as president (and it pains me to say this) that he is going to have no pull in either house.
And if this guy wont have the influence by just being one of them and at least trying, then it is time to just take a sledgehammer to it all.
“The presidency is the top executive position in a POLITICAL system, where other players have power and authority.”
All the reason why you take a sledgehammer to this, because that’s what it has become. Trump sees their vaulted authority and power and doesn’t care. It’s just monkeys in expensive suits that think they rule us.
“He’s no Eisenhower, the last person for whom the presidency was his first elective office.”
So then why elect some old general when there were perfectly fine senators to put in a “political” office?