Pew: Most Americans think Trump is trying to exercise more power than previous presidents

There is no doubt that Trump is trying to exercise more power. He is pushing the limits of the Executive Branch and what he feels are enroachments from other branches. He is not the first president to do this, although he is the first to push this hard for anyone in today's lifetime. I don't even mind this. I am not a fan of his approach, which is an "at all costs" approach. The things I am concerned about are:

• Congress relinquishing their job in favor of presidential executive orders and an unwillingness to push back.
• Trump railed against the politicization of the justice department and yet he is overtly polticizing and weaponizing the justice department. Whether he can or can't is another question, but he campaigned against this and signed an executive order to this, and yet he is ignoring his own executive order
• He complained about Hunter Biden enriching himself by leveraging President's Biden's name, despite the Republican led committee being unable to find anything, yet he has helped his family members openly enrich themselves as a result of his presidenty. The latest his grand daughter on the White House lawn touting her new clothing line to her Tik Tok followers

This is where I think more of the danger lies. Not just because he wants to expand the limits of the Executive Branch,

Sometimes I'm not quite sure how much more Trump wants to use executive power, versus how much it's obvious. Biden and Obama, among others, did a good job covering their tracks, but their use of executive power was huge.

The expansion of presidential powers has been on a slow rise since Regan. Each subsequent administration has done more and more with executive orders. Again, I don't have a problem with Trump continuing to try to expand them. The issue is the unrestrained use of power. The legislative and judicial branch must exert their power in order to keep things in check and in balance. My concern is that the legislative branch has become subservient to the president. And really at the end of the day subservient to their party and not to their constituents. The challenge will be if a Democrat gets into power who wants to exercise the same control Trump has, the conservative base will become delirious. What if AOC becomes president and then starts withholding funds to conservative states, colleges or cities if they don't bow to what she wants. My concern is that we will start seeing wide swings every time another party comes into power, just quickly dismantling what the other party did and pushing it even further.

The challenge will be if a Democrat gets into power who wants to exercise the same control Trump has, the conservative base will become delirious.

The democrats have been doing that my whole life already. It is just that the legacy media was not reporting on it or else were promoting it as a good thing. Now that Trump is simply exercising a similar level of authority that the democrats had been using for multiple administrations, the democrats are getting upset.

JD's correct that the left has been doing this for a while, and the challenge, then, is how do you create an environment where the whole country will raise a ruckus about such matters. Many say "well, turnabout is fair play", but in my view, that ensures that there will be....turnabout. My thought is that it would be far wiser to help create an environment where the default setting is that the President will, as the Constitution states, work his policies through Congress. That means you lead by example, and write laws which have far less leeway for interpretation in their implementation.

I won't be holding my breath on that one for obvious reasons.

That means you lead by example, and write laws which have far less leeway for interpretation in their implementation.

That would be great, but we cannot even get a continuing resolution passed.