Opinion: If Democrats dislike Trump's authoritarianism, why were the debates so hot for executive action? (via latimesopinion)
But as problematic as government can be, it is not the enemy. To warp the famous Pogo line, the government is us, and it will be as good or as bad as we decide to make it.Should the federal government be smaller? That’s a legitimate and maybe even necessary discussion to have. But blowing up federal agencies in an anti-regulatory frenzy is not a workable solution. Government by its nature yaws as policies shift under incoming administrations.
And we have regulatory rules to mitigate the excessive swings — air deemed too polluted under one administration really shouldn’t suddenly become clean enough under the new administration. Decisions need to be based on research, and reason, even with changes in philosophies in the White House. Until Trump. If Rudy Giuliani was a hand grenade tossed into diplomatic efforts with Ukraine, as John BoltonCan ousting Trump recalibrate the democracy? Probably not. He’s contagious on some levels.
On the campaign trail, several Democrats have invoked using executive actions to achieve a wide range of reforms that Congress has refused to address. Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Sanders and Kamala Harris haveexecutive power to achieve policy goals they might not be able to get through Congress, a strategy most Democrats have decried when the executive doing the ordering was Trump.
So in some ways Trump’s excesses have created a norm for the use of power by a president, though in truth that is part of an evolution that predates the Nixon administration — the embrace of the
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