In America, there were still elections, but they didn’t matter very much. A Republican president could tinker a little, but he couldn’t change things. The left would throw its ritualistic tantrums if he limited abortion funding or invaded Iraq. But around the isolated controversies, everything else would go on moving further to the left.
Good synopsis.
Describes the entire 8 years of the Bush admin to a tee. In fact, that was the Bush doctrine of “compassionate conservatism”.