politics

As a non-american this is one of the most striking things about the Trump presidency.

Laws are made through a long process of consideration, debate, and revision. Govt institutions regulate and apply laws with extensive transparency and oversight. Its decentralised, cautious, and robust.

Conversely, Trump just decrees whatever he feels at any given time.

My point is, people from his own party should be outraged that theyre being side lined, and are unable to represent their constituents interests.

Times have changed, but just 10 years ago it was common in Australia for a political party to replace their own leader for similar reasons even when that party leader was prime minister.

Now many are wondering whether anything will be different next year, especially with the added political pressure of the approaching midterm elections.

I'd be curious to see if Republicans are able to find a pair anywhere among them. They seem completely nutless during Donvict's second term.

At least some of them seem to be thinking about what happens after Donvict is out of office/shuffles off this mortal coil and seem to be giving pause. Or looking for the exits, so they don't have to face the terrorism of Donvict's henchmen.

Lol, I wonder how much of this is just performative agitation for the papers/cameras, because they're worried about re-election. Cause they sure as shit haven't been worried about the people.

When you hand a dictator power, you won't get it back until they're gone.

Perhaps they're not aware of how much power they conceded and how difficult it will be to get it back.

Constitutional Convention, it's been 200+ years, it's time.

I now think that anything Congress does to cede its authority to anything should be inherently unconstitutional.

Congresspeople on the day they first walk into office have less power than most people probably expect. They don't sit on committees. It's difficult to introduce legislation. Many of the important bills they vote on are giant monsters of bills and they have no option except to vote along party lines.

So individual congresspeople are put into a this conundrum. If they want to benefit their constituents, they have to play along with their party leadership. If the executive branch has too much power over the party, as Trump does, due to his controlling all the money, then essentially, the executive branch controls Congress.

We need to get rid of all of this ceding of power not just to the executive branch but also to anything else, like political parties, or even to rules of order, like how the filibuster works today. There are all sorts of ways that Congress today has less power than specified in the constitution.