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nichomachus

(12,754 posts)
Wed Mar 2, 2016, 05:27 PM Mar 2016

Fortunately, no

What most people (including Trump) don't realize is that the president has very little real power all by himself. He's not an autocrat who holds the power of life and death.

Presidents need the Congress and the courts, as well as the agencies and the military, to do what they do. They also need a strong group of people around them. Bush was a cipher, but he had Cheney and Cheney had a whole array of people to do his bidding. That was a gang that had been in place and working together for decades. They weren't people that he just picked up off the street. He also had Wall Street behind him, Rupert Murdoch and the rest of the presstitutes.

Trump has none of that. He has no party behind him, no apparatus, Wall Street hates him, the presstitutes hate him, the Congress doesn't know whether to shit or go blind, the agencies -- and most important, the military -- have no use for him. If he says "Drop the bomb" and the military says "Fuck you," what does he do?

I had a friend who worked in the White House during the final days of Nixon. He told me that Nixon couldn't have started a war if he wanted to. For the last several months of his presidency, he had no power whatsoever.

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