The really unfortunate thing is that this is nothing new.
Congress, pathetic, privileged cowards that they are, has been ceding power to the executive branch for decades now, and that’s a lot of what’s made the Trump/Musk coup d’etat possible in the first place.
While it’s especially pointed and unfortunate right now, with the presidency in the tiny hands of a raving lunatic bent on destroying democracy primarily because it stands in the way of his fragile ego’s squalling need to believe that he’s the bestest president ever in the history of ever, I have no doubt that if tariffs had become a sufficiently controversial subject at any point in the last few decades, Congress would’ve done the same, entirely regardless of specifically whose ass was warming the seat in the Oval Office.
The really unfortunate thing is that this is nothing new.
Congress, pathetic, privileged cowards that they are, has been ceding power to the executive branch for decades now, and that’s a lot of what’s made the Trump/Musk coup d’etat possible in the first place.
While it’s especially pointed and unfortunate right now, with the presidency in the tiny hands of a raving lunatic bent on destroying democracy primarily because it stands in the way of his fragile ego’s squalling need to believe that he’s the bestest president ever in the history of ever, I have no doubt that if tariffs had become a sufficiently controversial subject at any point in the last few decades, Congress would’ve done the same, entirely regardless of specifically whose ass was warming the seat in the Oval Office.