long but informative read.
One concluding comment: The imperial presidency has indeed become a problem. But the problem pre-dates recent power grabs by Donald Trump. Nor does culpability rest exclusively with the Republican Party. After all, it was Joe Biden who attempted to bypass Congress and cancel roughly $400 billion in student loans. And it was Joe Biden who then tried to circumvent a Supreme Court decision by conjuring alternative means to the same end. And it was Joe Biden’s Department of Labor that unsuccessfully claimed unilateral authority to mandate vaccinations by all large private sector companies. In each case, Biden had no legislative assent. Nonetheless, he garnered enthusiastic backing from congressional Democrats—willingly condoning executive overreach when their man was in the White House. Of course, Republicans behaved in like manner.
So, the threshold problem is neither Biden nor Trump. It’s congressional abdication—the solution for which is Congress’s re-assertion of its authority as a co-equal branch, and reinvigoration of its legislative and oversight roles, as envisioned by the Framers.