The founders never would have imagined something like Unitary Executive Theory would ever take off, as they assumed that each branch would be too selfish to willingly diminish their own power by handing it over to another branch.

edit: On second thought, seeing as half of them didn't know if they wanted an elected representative or a king to rule their new nation, maybe the outcome was all too predictable even back then. Apparently some people, even wise and intelligent people, tend to gravitate towards the mindset that the powerful deserve to rule and the meek deserve to be ruled over as a sort of natural order.

The founders couldn’t imagine a president making literally everyone in their party’s congress a scared little bitch.

Balance of powers has never really worked. Congress will seldom impeach a president from their own party. Two party system has completely effed the US.

His pardons are as legitimate as his election fraud claims. The rest of the government should be treating it with similar disdain

I agree with you generally. Do they have a specific mechanism for controlling the pardon? Or would they just have to fall back on unpacking and removing the president? Because if that’s the only solution, sure it exists, but yeah the pardon power itself could probably use some work.

This is it exactly. Our friendly local Lemmy user is sharper than a Guardian columnist.

Which does not surprise me.