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<blockquote data-quote="Next Day Err" data-source="post: 5852034" data-attributes="member: 107379">Did anyone tell Donald Trump this before he stood above an adoring crowd at the 2016 RNC and ominously declared &quot;I alone can fix it&quot;? I&#039;m not sure that he knew about checks and balances at that point.So Biden can&#039;t solve the border issue in perpetuity, for example, without Congressional cooperation. Got it.So you understand why the current White House is hesitant to act on executive fiat when it comes to contentious issues like the border because it&#039;ll end up in the courts in about 5 seconds?Good news, everybody! Trump claimed that he&#039;d like to start <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/12/03/politics/trump-constitution-truth-social/index.html" target="_blank">terminating parts of the Constitution</a>. Why not just trash the whole thing while we&#039;re at it? Then after that, since Trump claimed he totally, definitely wouldn&#039;t be a dictator &quot;other than day one&quot; he can just solve all the problems in 24 hours! Easy peasy. Trump had two full years of full Republican control to get the wall built. It didn&#039;t work because he&#039;s incompetent and his administration was incompetent. And when the incompetency became obvious they turned to unAmerican cruelty.Everybody who cheered when Trump claimed that &#039;he alone could fix it&#039; was conned. That&#039;s not the way it works in the United States of America. No one person or party fixes entire swaths of issues without democratic or bipartisan support. Which is kind of what I&#039;m hearing you argue for as well. So my point stands. People were conned by Donald Trump. They are being conned again by his authoritarian rhetoric.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Next Day Err, post: 5852034, member: 107379"] Did anyone tell Donald Trump this before he stood above an adoring crowd at the 2016 RNC and ominously declared "I alone can fix it"? I'm not sure that he knew about checks and balances at that point. So Biden can't solve the border issue in perpetuity, for example, without Congressional cooperation. Got it. So you understand why the current White House is hesitant to act on executive fiat when it comes to contentious issues like the border because it'll end up in the courts in about 5 seconds? Good news, everybody! Trump claimed that he'd like to start [URL='https://www.cnn.com/2022/12/03/politics/trump-constitution-truth-social/index.html']terminating parts of the Constitution[/URL]. Why not just trash the whole thing while we're at it? Then after that, since Trump claimed he totally, definitely wouldn't be a dictator "other than day one" he can just solve all the problems in 24 hours! Easy peasy. Trump had two full years of full Republican control to get the wall built. It didn't work because he's incompetent and his administration was incompetent. And when the incompetency became obvious they turned to unAmerican cruelty. Everybody who cheered when Trump claimed that 'he alone could fix it' was conned. That's not the way it works in the United States of America. No one person or party fixes entire swaths of issues without democratic or bipartisan support. Which is kind of what I'm hearing you argue for as well. So my point stands. People were conned by Donald Trump. They are being conned again by his authoritarian rhetoric. [/QUOTE]

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