Source: The Weekly Dish
by Andrew Sullivan
“There are many ways in which Trump represents a sharp break from his Republican predecessors: his embrace of tariffs and enforcement of serious immigration control; his loathing of democracy-building abroad; his aversion to war; his contempt for the rule of law (if ever applied to him); his ‘America First’ treatment of allies. But there is one area where he actually represents real continuity with the past: his administration’s belief in executive power largely untrammeled by the legislative. The term of art for this is the ‘unitary executive theory,’ which has gripped the imagination of Republicans since, well, Watergate, if we’re being candid, but it’s been knocking around since Wilson. … Donald Trump has always viewed his office as an elected monarch, and he has a mass movement that has explicitly declared and supported him as such.” (02/07/25)
https://andrewsullivan.substack.com/p/dick-cheneys-wet-dream-b46