Once Trump is gone, the U.S. must completely reform the presidency

OPINION - "However Donald Trump leaves the White House, whether through impeachment, defeat at the polls or (God forbid) after a second term, there will be a reckoning in U.S. politics. For nearly three years now, a corrupt, authoritarian presidency has hacked away at democratic institutions and safeguards. Trump has surrounded himself with self-enriching cronies, conspiracy-minded propagandists and, yes, even criminals." "Pressuring Ukrainian President Voldoymyr Zelenskyy to investigate a political rival is just a high note in this opera of malfeasance. Now, he is refusing congressional subpoenas, trying to cover up his impeachable actions and taking a hatchet to the rule of law in the process. Trump is committing these impeachable offences and possible crimes all why tearing up U.S. foreign policy. He has abandoned the Kurds to almost certain genocide in Syria; he is fulfilling Russian President Vladimir Putin’s policy goals in Ukraine and the Middle East and he continues to attack NATO allies through his deliberate misunderstanding of the organisation’s finances. And for almost three years, he’s faced no consequences. Certainly, this is partly due to Republican ultras in the House and, especially since 2018, the Senate. But there is a more fundamental problem. The U.S. president is simply too powerful. The American presidency is akin to an elective kingship. The president has vast, sweeping and frequently unregulated powers not unlike the Caesars of the early Roman Empire. And like in Rome, a venal or amoral or mentally unfit man can wield those powers against the people and against the traditional institutions that ostensibly keep him in check." http://ow.ly/yASZ50wTBDR
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