Trump will have vast powers. He can thank Democrats for them.

[Kevin_Kennedy]

Liberals liked executive authority as long as Obama wielded it. Now they've set a precedent.

Liberals are understandably panicked about what Donald Trump can carry out. “We have a president-elect with authoritarian tendencies assuming a presidency that has never been more powerful ,” Franklin Foer wrote this past week in Slate. Trump will command not only a massive nuclear arsenal and the most robust military in history, but also the ability to wage numerous wars in secret and without congressional authorization; a ubiquitous system of electronic surveillance that can reach most forms of human communication and activity; and countless methods for shielding himself from judicial accountability, congressional oversight and the rule of law — exactly what the Constitution was created to prevent. Trump assumes the presidency “at the peak of its imperial powers,” as Foer wrote.

Glenn Greenwald: Trump will have vast powers. He can thank Democrats for them.

Makes the crying all the more hilarious. How many things that Obama did will be declared evil by people who supported them from Jan. 2009-Jan. 2017?

 

[Little-Acorn]

Those who lived for 8 years by fiat rule, have now died by it.

Couldn't have happened to a more deserving bunch.