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It's not all Trump's fault.

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Brian Griffiths
Mar 21, 2025
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Friends, It's not all Trump's fault.

I'm serious.

The Democratic backsliding that we have seen during the Trump Administration is real and much of it can be attributed to Donald Trump himself. In recent times, nobody has pressed the executive Authority issue in the Unitarian Executive Theory more than Trump.

I am still amazed that those who have been pushing for “conservative” governance for the last several years are now gleefully handing executive power to a Hillary Clinton donor and former Democrat from New York, but that's an aside.

To my general point, the fact of the matter is that Congress handing over power to the President is far from a new phenomenon.

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