People claimed US has checks and balance, 3 pillars of power, yada, yada, yada. The current president has proved most of the so called “checks and balances” are not really hard rules, they are more like unenforceable traditions, and even when a law is broken there are no real guardrails against it. The bipartisan congress will not come together to take back the powers they ceded to the ceasar, neither now nor in future.
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“In many respects, the national security process has ceased to exist,” said David Rothkopf. Trump, he added, effectively is the national-security system—“the State Department and the Joint Chiefs and the NSC all rolled into one.”
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