If you're writing for Common Dreams, like Will Bunch does, and the potential president is Donald Trump, you might agree. "We Know That Wannabe Dictator Trump Can Win in 2024—So What Is to Be Done?"
But if the president in question is Joe Biden, and you're fangirling for Sandy Cortez, like predictable useful idiot Julia Conley is, acting like a dictator is just fine. "'He Needs to Step Up': Ocasio-Cortez Urges New Student Debt Relief From Biden." And Dementia Joe, despite being thwarted in several manifestations of that dictatorial urge, is still at it. "I won’t back down from using every tool at our disposal to get student loan borrowers the relief they need."
And if it's depriving Normals of their ability to cook their food, heat their homes, or get around, Common Dreams types still don't mind Dementia Joe behaving like a dictator. "More than 360 climate and rights groups filed a legal petition [in January 2022] that calls on the Biden administration to utilize its executive authority to phase out federal oil and gas production on public lands and oceans." And if the dictator collaborates with the executive committee of the ruling class, that's also fine. "Progressive members of Congress, including Sen. Ed Markey and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, urged the president to support a complete phaseout of fossil fuels."
There are limits, though, as useful idiot Julia Conley just discovered. "Rushing deadly weapons to the far-right and openly genocidal Israeli government without congressional review robs American voters of their voice in Congress."
There's a reason the Federal Constitution establishes Congressional powers in Article I and specifies presidential powers in Article II. It might do the self-styled progressives, whenever they look to the presidency as the way to get what they want, to contemplate the presidency held by somebody who doesn't agree with them.
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