My apologies. You'd quoted several of my posts in one reply, but hadn't linked all of them. I lost track of which parts I was responding to.
That was more of a metaphor. Trump tries to get something done via executive order, it goes to the courts, sometimes it gets upheld, sometimes it gets upheld in modified form, and sometimes it gets slapped down. And what does Trump do? He just carries on presidentin'. If his EO is upheld, he executes on it under the law. And if his EO is slapped down, he gives it up under the law, or seeks an acceptable modification under the law.
Like a kid running up to the playground fence, only to bounce off it and go back to running around the playground.
Compare to, say, Adolf Hitler, who when he got to the limits of the law, cut through the fence, walked outside, took off, and nuked the entire playground from orbit. Because that's what aspiring totalitarian madmen actually do. Trump doesn't want to be dictator, he just wants to be president. Sure, he's got some misconceptions about the extent of presidential authority, which I blame on the American education system. And every time he's bumped up against the real limits, he's recoiled, rather than pushing through. And in the few areas where the President actually has very broad and dangerous limits - nuclear launch authority, for example - Trump has not approached or bumped against those limits.
You look at his deeds, not his words, and you see a president that's a little more obviously wrongheaded in some ways, and a little more to the right than his predecessor, but still well within the mainstream of presidential policy going back at least a dozen administrations.
We already have periodic elections. All you're saying here is that we should shorten the period. As if replacing the government every other year due to popular outcry is better than than replacing it every four years due to popular outcry.
