{"id":44828,"date":"2020-04-14T11:13:25","date_gmt":"2020-04-14T18:13:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=44828"},"modified":"2020-04-14T11:55:41","modified_gmt":"2020-04-14T18:55:41","slug":"so-trump-thinks-that-president-biden-will-have-total-authority","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=44828","title":{"rendered":"So Trump Thinks That President Biden Will Have Total Authority?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Among the innumerable problems that Donald Trump conjures up on a daily (hourly) basis are his tunnel-blind outbursts that assert bizarre and dangerous authorities. The “Chosen One<\/a><\/strong>“<\/em> actually seems to believe that he is an omnipotent despot whose decrees cannot be challenged by the riffraff over which he holds divine supremacy.<\/p>\n

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Now Trump is asserting<\/a><\/strong> that “When somebody’s the president of the United States, the authority is total.”<\/em> That’s a view that should scare the bejesus out of every American, regardless of political affiliation. It’s an assumption of power that is reserved for the sort of tyrants that Trump frequently shows admiration (Vladimir Putin, Xi Jinping, Kim Jong Un). And it is unequivocally undemocratic and un-American. Unfortunately, It is also an unambiguously Trumpian view that he is unashamed of:<\/p>\n

“I’m going to put it very simply: the president of the United States has the authority to do what the president has the authority to do, which is very powerful. The president of the United States calls the shots,”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

What Trump seems to have forgotten is that the powers he seeks to lavish on himself would create a precedent for future presidents. If Trump were to succeed in asserting totally authority, then Joe Biden would have it as well. Is that something that Republicans would support? Would Fox News accept a Biden presidency that exercised the same authoritarian power that Trump is advocating? For the time being we’d have to assume that they would, because everyone from Lindsey Graham to Sean Hannity have applauded Trump’s ascension to dictator. None of them have said anything to renounce it. Well, except for this guy:<\/p>\n

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