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Good. Make Congress do its job. Erode the executive until we're not frothing at the mouth every 4 years worrying about who will be "in charge," and instead focusing on the actions of our congressional representatives.

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This won't "make" Congress do anything. They'll continue sitting on their asses because they face no consequences for their (in)actions.

So we froth at the mouth every two years instead? I get the argument but I'm not really sure this is going to help in the way you want it.

Absolutely. I have 400 times more control over who my congressman is than who the president is.

But your congressman has less than 1/400 the power of the President.

Realistically the president doesn't do all that much to affect the course of the country relative to congress.

Trump literally ruled by executive order.

And how much did anything change outside your window as a result of that?

Pretending like total control of foreign policy isn't the greatest power of all

Even trump was on a tight leash with that and basically just carried the old torch like every president does. Oh I guess he had too much lunch with putin but its not like he took us out of NATO kind of like the conservatives in the UK did with the EU and brexit. A bunch of talk but the same old neoliberal walk we've been doing for decades.

https://www.cfr.org/timeline/trumps-foreign-policy-moments

I feel like you may not be remembering his presidency properly

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