Julian Sanchez
@normative
'Frankly, Trump is demonstrating that our constitutional system is actually stunningly poorly designed for its advertised purpose of checking monarchical power, and we’ve just been incredibly lucky about not simultaneously picking a wannabe caudillo & a supine Congress.'
'Granted, maybe “poorly designed” is unfair 250 years later. But it’s hard not to notice that the effective checks on Trump in year one have been more a function of institutional cultures within the executive branch than Congress cracking the whip in the way Federalist imagines.'
'*John Adams. "Avarice, ambition, revenge or gallantry would break the strongest cords of our Constitution as a whale goes through a net. Our Constitution is designed only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate for any other." '
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