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Voters' Yearning for a Dictator Is a Danger to the Country


When it comes to presidential politics, voters are often their own worst enemies.

The people we choose to inhabit the White House are part of the problem in American presidential politics, but the unrealistically vast expectations the public places on that position, and the efforts of chief executives to expand their powers to meet those hopes and dreams, pose even greater danger. Specifically, the AP-NORC poll found, 57 percent of Republicans thought it would be a good thing if Donald Trump won the 2024 presidential election for him "to take action on the country's important policy issues without waiting for Congress or the courts." "President Barack Obama came into office four years ago skeptical of pushing the power of the White House to the limit, especially if it appeared to be circumventing Congress," Anita Kumar reported for McClatchy Newspapers in 2013.

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