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Commentary, only on Apple News: Congress Is Betraying America's Founders by Ceding Power to Trump The framers of the Constitution believed liberty lived in the friction between governmental branches. Read: apple.news/A3BI6GaKRSCi...

“The Founders missed Frankenstein by 30 years and the Mar-a-Lago face by a few hundred more. But they may have recognized the presidency we have now: a grotesque concentration of authority in the hands of Trump.” More from @alexiscoe.bsky.social: apple.news/A3BI6GaKRSCi...

"The modern executive branch is a creature made monstrous by what George Washington called ‘unprincipled men,’" writes @alexiscoe.bsky.social. "The Framers had another name for them: Congress." Read about how Congress is giving up its power: apple.news/A3BI6GaKRSCi...

“The rivalry Madison imagined has been replaced by partisan alignment,” argues historian @alexiscoe.bsky.social. “The check on the president dissolves; the office of the president grows.” More on expanding presidential powers: apple.news/A3BI6GaKRSCi...

“Either way, the presidency rests on permissions Congress writes,” says @alexiscoe.bsky.social. “Bad presidents are temporary. Congress is the through-line — and it keeps feeding a fire that will not spare it.” More on expanding executive power ⤵️ apple.news/A3BI6GaKRSCi...

Republicans won both houses of Congress, the presidency, control the SCOTUS and the President said the election was rigged.