MysticWitchGames

“We talk a lot these days about how Donald Trump seems to think he owns the United States – he puts his brand, his likeness, his signature on everything. He talks about his generals, his military, etc. But there’s a more concrete and specific way this is true and it goes to the heart of what needs to be fixed about the American presidency and the whole constitutional system. […] An analogy illustrates the distinction. Say you’re a wealthy person with an estate and you hire someone to run it for you. Maybe you’re a true high roller and you summer there. But you need someone to run it, manage it. So we’ve found our estate manager and he’s running our estate. But now you heard that he’s tearing down the main house and replacing it with a roller skating rink. And there are three acres of land down at the bottom of a hill. Well, he sold those to someone else and he’s using the proceeds to build himself an ice cream factory on your estate. At some point you found out about all this stuff and you say, WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK IS GOING ON HERE? I hired you to run my estate, to manage it, to do upkeep, manage the staff, keep the lawn mowed. I didn’t hire you to demolish it or sell off parts of it. You can see where I’m going here. The American people select a president to run the federal government, to execute the responsibilities the federal government has. That includes national security and foreign policy, administering a vast social safety net, running various duties the federal government has taken on — ag policy, biomedical research, grant research. The American people own the federal government. They are the sovereign. That sovereignty is expressed through laws passed by Congress. The president is elected to run it for four years. It’s not his. He can’t just lop off big parts of it, sell parts off, decide it should no longer do things it was designed to do.”

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