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massimus said:
Kaneman! said:

Just like Hitler was just the "leader" (Führer) of the Third Reich, right? It doesn't make any sense - if anything, it should be front-runner instead of leader, because it can be misconstrued easily. Maybe even herald would be better.

Hes the leader of the government, not the people. The executive is the leader. They don’t “rule” like a king though, there are 2 other equal branches of government, the powers were separated but they are all tied down by the limitations in our constitution. Their authority doesn’t exist beyond that document. The importance of our federal government has been highly overplayed for a hundred years with the introduction and beginnings of the progressive left in America. America is largely supposed to be State based governance. State laws can be anything as long as it agrees to basic broad federal rules.

I know, we were talking about the semantics of the word "leader", rather than the de facto political applications of the term.