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Americans expect a lot from their Presidents. But the real problem is Congress.
In the US, you need a super-majority in the Senate to pass any legislation.
The Senate size is so small that a single individual Senator has huge power. That create incentives for corruption.
Joe Biden tried to increase taxes on Wall Street. One single Senator, Kyrsten Sinema, sabotaged him.
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/sinema-received-nearly-1-million-from-wall-street-while-killing-tax-hike-on-investors
https://www.cnbc.com/2022/08/09/how-wall-street-wooed-sen-kyrsten-sinema-and-preserved-its-multi-billion-dollar-carried-interest-tax-break.html
The Biden Administration introduce a provision in the Inflation Reduction Act to to bring down drug prices. Again. One single Senator was enough to weaken his reform.
https://www.salon.com/2021/09/23/big-pharma-firms-donated-750k-to-kyrsten-sinema-then-she-opposed-bill/
https://www.businessinsider.com/kyrsten-sinema-pharmaceutical-giants-campaign-donations-drug-price-reform-2021-9
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/oct/11/big-pharma-has-a-powerful-new-shill-kyrsten-sinema-fighting-drug-price-reform
Sinema was never going to play ball, she made it clear the moment she was elected, she was pretty much poor like mtg and boebart before being elected, shes a millionaire from all those donations now.
Good points, but the contention between branches is just kabuki theatre. It’s fake bro. There are always a rotating cast of “spoiler villains,” and if too many of them are facing reelection then they just make something up like “senate parliamentarian won’t let them.”
If the Dem president actually wanted to get something done then he’d use the bully pulpit like Trump does to make it so. This happened approximately 0 times during Biden’s 4 year slumber.
I've always bought up this sort of thing; but I've had to rethink it... not thar its wrong, but the executive orders that this (and many other presidents) sign which starts massive changes that don't go through Congress completely short circuit the process. Even if they eventually get overturned, it's typically way too late to go back to what was. It's a short cut to get things done that isn't popular and wouldn't have passed as a bill.
Much like destroying the east wing, you can't ever get things back you lost. People lose jobs, land gets torn up, foreign trust gets destroyed... it so much easier to sign an executive order, make a change that destroys that which took decades to build and then have it overturned. Then you say "well, congress has that power not the president" but it's too late.
I mean it's definitely both..... Congress has empowered the executive to an incredible degree, and this has been rarified by the judiciary.
Plus, most people ignore most elections other than when electing a new president. So your presidential candidate has a huge influence over the makeup and political agenda of Congress.