Source: The Hill
by Peter Goettler
“Writing in 1908, future president Woodrow Wilson compared the American system of government to the human body, in which the president existed as the brain to direct the movement of the limbs (Congress, the courts, etc.) His vision would have shocked the Founders, particularly his assertion that the president is ‘the only national voice in affairs’ and so is ‘at liberty, both in law and conscience, to be as big a man as he can.’ In the first presidential debate to feature a former president squaring off against a current vice president, Americans saw one candidate trying to demonstrate that he hasn’t changed and one trying to convince us that she has become a completely new person. … It seems unlikely that many viewers watching Harris and Trump go at it on stage in Philadelphia were thinking, ‘these people need more power.'” (09/23/24)
https://thehill.com/opinion/4892937-trump-harris-presidential-debate/