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[SanAndreasX]

haxxiy said:

SanAndreasX said:

The US’s checks and balances system was never anything more than a polite fiction. The president has too much power, and it’s impossible for him to be expelled from office because it takes 68 Senators out of 100 to do so. Two of the biggest mistakes were combining the head of state and the head of government into one role, and giving the upper house (the Senate) so much power. 

The US president has more power than most European heads of state, but comparatively little if we look at every country in the world. In Argentina or Mexico, for instance, their presidents can do things that even Musk can only dream of, and that's even without getting into authoritarian countries.

Now, of course, SCOTUS is supposedly open to a more maximalist view of executive power, especially in regard to federal agencies and their budget.

The U.S. president can do literally anything that just 38 people in the entire country are willing to forgive him for, no matter how horrific. And he has 53 of those people backing him up, as long as he does anything short of dissolving Congress and installing a military junta with him as the head of it.