Interesting take, but I’m not sure if I agree. IMO Trump’s second term is another joke played on us by the God of Straight Lines: successive presidents centralize more and more power, sapping it from other institutions.
There was a good article discussing this trend that I’m unable to find atm. But going off the top of my head, the most obvious executive overreach by Biden was the student loan forgiveness.
My opinion on that is that it was largely misrepresented by loud Trump loyalists for the purposes of normalization of radical power consolidation. In the style of ‘Accusation in a Mirror.’ Specifically, they already planned to radically consolidate executive power and used this as an opportunity to begin the desensitization process that would make their plan future consolidation efforts raise fewer eyebrows. The more they bemoaned Biden’s actions the easier their path would be. Even so, let’s not falsely equate Biden and student loans with Trump and the implementation of Project 2025 and its goal of a Unitary Executive (read: dictator).
Interesting take, but I’m not sure if I agree. IMO Trump’s second term is another joke played on us by the God of Straight Lines: successive presidents centralize more and more power, sapping it from other institutions.
Can you give some examples of how this happened under Biden? Because frankly this line is not looking straight.
There was a good article discussing this trend that I’m unable to find atm. But going off the top of my head, the most obvious executive overreach by Biden was the student loan forgiveness.
It seems hard to argue that this was an escalation over Trump’s first term.
My opinion on that is that it was largely misrepresented by loud Trump loyalists for the purposes of normalization of radical power consolidation. In the style of ‘Accusation in a Mirror.’ Specifically, they already planned to radically consolidate executive power and used this as an opportunity to begin the desensitization process that would make their plan future consolidation efforts raise fewer eyebrows. The more they bemoaned Biden’s actions the easier their path would be. Even so, let’s not falsely equate Biden and student loans with Trump and the implementation of Project 2025 and its goal of a Unitary Executive (read: dictator).