I found this article by Cato Institute, of all places, interesting as it criticizes the Republican rhetoric about the constitution as possibly…deeply misinformed.
I found this article by Cato Institute, of all places, interesting as it criticizes the Republican rhetoric about the constitution as possibly…deeply misinformed.
It’s just patriotic rhetoric to appeal to their core demographic, and I think we know from their past form upholding their own constitution is not the Republican party’s main priority. I’d hope that at least their supporters who do care about the constitution - which people died for - can smell this bs a mile off.
But it’s true the whole thing about The President is not actually a dictator (although certain recent ones might have behaved that way). They still have to follow process and can’t make things disappear overnight.
I’m in the UK and our right wing politicians sometimes do a similar thing with history (industrial revolution, Churchill, Empire(!), etc), although that doesn’t work so well these days because they need to be attractive a youth vote. And similarly I think Boris Jonson thought he was going to be a dictator and instead found himself beholden to parliamentary laws, even ones he’d created himself and was quite shocked about the whole thing.
They all just want to be Putin deep down!
Both parties do this. This is nothing unique to the Republicans.
Both parties abuse executive orders.
THe problem is congress has not acted like a congress for a very long time. That is why the court keep pushing cases back like Roe since Congress should be the one to make a law.
Yet both sides just twiddle their thumbs.