"President Obama Has Earned Our Disapproval" The Atlantic, Nov 2014

[True Blue Door]

146. I think it's utterly insane.

Basically he's saying the President of the United States should be a dictator who imposes the author's political opinions on the state rather than the leader of one branch of a three-branch government.

He also seems to think the President should politically interfere in the Justice Department and force it to prosecute certain people even if US Attorneys find it legally problematic or practically impossible to do so, and further interfere to force it not to prosecute certain other people whose actions - even when they do technically violate laws - the author considers politically beneficial. Basically he wants a progressive-flavored Richard Nixon.

This is not a liberal viewpoint, or one rooted in reality-based citizenship. This is someone who wants a left-wing populist strongman to basically send in the tanks, purge the professional bureaucracies of anyone who is ideologically impure, and force Congress and the courts to implement their wish list.

The obsessive focus on Obama rather than on what we know for years to have been the root of America's political problems - GOP obstructionism - makes it just another example of the left carrying right-wing water.