I wish it was a huge scandal that the Democrats failed to act to restrain executive authority between Trump administrations. His excesses demand legislative responses to claw back their powers.
For one thing, Trump's Executive Order 14257 for the tariffs explicitly relies on the International Emergency Economic Powers Act of 1977 (IEEPA). Instead of voting to terminate specific declared national emergencies, they should be voting to repeal IEEPA, or to at least shackle it thoroughly.
Every Kingly excess should be met with the same pattern of working toward explicit revocation. Otherwise they're just angling to get their hands on it.
And a huger scandal that the party of small government didn't lead the charge.
I think when Trump left office in 2021 everyone (McConnell especially) breathed a collective sigh of relief and said, "well I am glad that will never happen again". Then they proceeded to trust that all future presidents would uphold 250 years of norms.
I think McConnell largely likes where we are politically. I'm sure he'd prefer that Trump be less deranged but by not voting to convict he left the door open for the GOP to control the president, congress, and SCOTUS.
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I wish it was a huge scandal that the Democrats failed to act to restrain executive authority between Trump administrations. His excesses demand legislative responses to claw back their powers.
For one thing, Trump's Executive Order 14257 for the tariffs explicitly relies on the International Emergency Economic Powers Act of 1977 (IEEPA). Instead of voting to terminate specific declared national emergencies, they should be voting to repeal IEEPA, or to at least shackle it thoroughly.
Every Kingly excess should be met with the same pattern of working toward explicit revocation. Otherwise they're just angling to get their hands on it.
And a huger scandal that the party of small government didn't lead the charge.
I think when Trump left office in 2021 everyone (McConnell especially) breathed a collective sigh of relief and said, "well I am glad that will never happen again". Then they proceeded to trust that all future presidents would uphold 250 years of norms.
I think McConnell largely likes where we are politically. I'm sure he'd prefer that Trump be less deranged but by not voting to convict he left the door open for the GOP to control the president, congress, and SCOTUS.
The two parties feverishly point fingers at each other while both are robbing us blind. It's working.
Why should that be a bigger scandal than the Republicans going along with everything Trump is doing?
"The democrats should be ashamed the Republicans are fascists."