As Donald Trump used his first two years in. office to project and act with little resistance from Congress, like his favour autocratic leaders around the world…
Conservative Republican’s began to fall in line with something they have NEVER liked or wanted…
A ‘King’…
Not a President….
After last year’s midterm’s ?
The absolute control Trump HAD is gone…
He now has to deal with a Democratic majority US House…
But Donald Trump HAS use MORE Presidential power them any other modern day chief executive…
And some of us are NOT happy with this….
But I have always felt that even if they are wrong….
Some American’s tend to like strong President’s…
Five years ago, congressional Republicans blasted former president Barack Obama as “Emperor Obama” and compared him to a king for his executive actions, most notably those protecting some undocumented immigrants. Ten years ago, conservative activists launched the tea party movement in large part as a call for a more limited federal government.
Today, conservative Republicans have moved sharply toward embracing a more powerful chief executive with fewer checks and balances.
A new Pew Research Center poll, in fact, finds that a majority of conservative Republicans (52 percent) agree that many problems would be solved “if U.S. presidents didn’t have to worry so much about Congress or the courts.”
Just 41 percent choose the other option, that it “would be too risky to give U.S. presidents more power” to confront problems.
This represents a sea change in the party. The number favoring fewer checks and balances has doubled just since last year, when only 26 percent favored a more powerful executive.
Among the broader group of all Republicans and Republican-leaning voters, the numbers have also risen substantially in recent years. Just 14 percent favored fewer checks on the president in 2016, Barack Obama’s final year in office. That number rose to around one-quarter in Trump’s first year-plus, and today it’s 43 percent of all Republicans.
And it’s not just a matter of partisanship either. It’s normal for a party to favor presidential powers more when it holds the office, but the shift among Republicans is considerably bigger than among Democrats….
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The Republican Party is becoming increasingly authoritarian, some of those “conservative values” I guess.