Explain, tanks. Will Donald become caesar?
The term `Imperial Presidency’ was popular in the 1960s and was the title of a 1973 book by Arthur Schlesinger.
Donald Trump doesn’t want to be Caesar. He wants a smaller, less powerful government.
The closest America has come to a Caesar was likely FDR. Early in FDRs first term, the Supreme Court repeatedly blocked New Deal legislation as unconstitutional. Rather than respect the Constitution, FDR instead threatened to pack the Court by appointing a bunch of new Justices. Biden-Harris recently dusted off FDR’s Supreme Court packing scheme. In addition, Harris has said she wants to eliminate the filibuster in the Senate.
America’s most recent Caesar was Obama who ignored the Treaty Clause in the Constitution (a Treaty must be ratified by a 2/3 supermajority in the Senate, which intentionally makes it difficult for the US to enter into treaties). Under Bill Clinton, the ratification vote on the Kyoto Climate Accord failed in the Senate. Obama implemented the Paris Climate Accord by claiming it wasn’t a treaty so didn’t need ratification. It’s hard to envisage a more imperial act than ignoring the Treaty Clause.
Anyhoo, here’s Vivek Ramaswamy at MSG
The whole speech is worth watching, but I’ve teed it up to where he says the people we elect to run the government should be the people who actually run the government, not unelected bureaucrats.
When the Dems and neocons talk about saving democracy, they’re actually talking about saving the bureaucracy