• @SeedyOne@lemmy.ca
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    1211 months ago

    I feel like some people think he can wave the “Executive Order” wand and there wouldn’t be repercussions or other roadblocks.

    • skulblaka
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      11 months ago

      Largely because Trump did a lot of waving around of the Executive Order wand.

      Problem is, that only works when you have flunkies that can back it up for you. Trump had a horde of goons that were eager to drink the kool-aid and support anything he said, reasonable or not. Biden is working with the opposite, with a congress full of people that will reject anything he says even if it’s a genuinely good idea. Obama struggled with similar problems, being stonewalled by congress.

      The Republican party long ago abandoned any pretense of actually governing and has simply become anti-democratic. This, in part, though not completely, is what has halted Biden’s progress, just one in a line of many of his forebears and probably several of his successors unless America collectively pulls its head out of its ass.

      • Silverseren
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        411 months ago

        “Largely because Trump did a lot of waving around of the Executive Order wand.”

        And, honestly, a lot of his executive orders did f*** all because of that. He claimed to have passed an EO to do something, but nothing really happened in actuality, he just got to claim it did.