What even is the point of these agreements if the next president/administration can just come in and say “nevermind, we’re actually not doing that”. Can’t we get some sort of legislative process put in place around this kind of thing?!
Yeah it's called "passing a law" but people only focus on the executive branch and forget to vote for midterms and shit.
Executive orders in their current capacity are a bastardization of our intended government.
Executive orders are this one weird trick Trump used to become king.
Most of the problems caused by Trump are for this exact reason.
Congress is too paralyzed to be effective anymore. The GOP is fully on Gingrich's "never compromise with the Dems for any reason, and hold the government hostage until you get your way" corruption while the Dems are the party of "we're beholden to the same corporate money as the GOP but at least the GOP doesn't have to pretend to not be".
Also, our eternally-increasing election cycles means that if you're a Rep, you get maybe one full year to legislate before having to worry about the optics for your re-election.
Add in procedural bullshit like the Hastert Rule and the filibuster and the result is a government that only functions via executive order or when one party controls all the branches (and maybe not even then, depending on how extreme your caucus is or how bought your Senators are).
some sort of legislative process
Fascism doesn't work that way.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/June_hogs
Look what was taken from all of us by these greedy motherfuckers.
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