• AndOfTheSevenSeas@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    You have to remember that a large swath of (generally) younger people are wildly misinformed/uninformed on the actual power of the presidency. They have the idea that the president can universally override all powers of the other branches at any given time and/or that both other branches will be captured (conveniently while a given dictator-to-be is in office) in a significant enough way that whatever piece of legislation the president outrightly wants, they will receive.

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      9 months ago

      A lot of people act like the president has unilateral power, not just younger people.

      He doesn’t, there’s checks and balances in Congress and the courts.

      But the courts are stacked and Congress is pretty closely split by which side of history their members have historically been on.