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[–] stumu415@lemmy.zip 11 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Indeed they do but in other countries there are mechanisms in place to ensure you don't get a cosplay dictator. In the Netherlands, Wilders was elected who is a Trump wannabe, but thanks for the proper democratic system in the Netherlands, he was severely limited in what crazy shit he wanted to do. Obviously the government collapsed and now they have a much more middle of the road government, which means more will get done. It is about checks and balances but Trump does whatever he wants and no one stops him.

[–] MonkRome@lemmy.world 8 points 5 days ago

Yeah the executive has been out of control here for decades, it just took trump to make that obvious.