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Trump takes on ‘dictator’ Biden as his upside down show moves to New Hampshire
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Honestly I just see this all as a case for the abolition of the office of president.
There should be government ministers who each attend to the leadership of various necessary departments, and the necessity of a leader in crisis should be a position created during that state of crisis and then nixxed on its resolution. Also, there should be redundancy, both for the sake of making sure someone's always able to step into a vital role, but also for accountability's sake making sure no one person can sign orders to conceal information which would serve the public interest better in the open.
Such governments are usually not agile enough during a crisis, where there needs to be immediate action.
Unless you’re saying you want an unelected person making the decision to activate the military and “respond” to a bunch of hicks with 3rd hand rockets and drones?
I'm saying that unless for some reason it's absolutely impossible to make happen, the intervention in that crisis should be lead by the minister Congress chooses to be the eye on the military or on homeland security.
If we're so incomprehensibly fucked that we need someone large and in charge then Congress should recognize the need and appoint a crisis minister to address the issue with their authority but also with regular reports on the status of the crisis and their work to address it.
Not to mention how the very idea of the state of emergency has its roots with one of the leading lawyers of the third reich, and was specifically invented as the legal grounds for which a dictator should be allowed to just ignore any accountability to other authorities.
The actual circumstances that warrant having one guy able to give all the orders are a VANISHINGLY rare occurrence compared to the instances where someone insists there's such a crisis because there being one means they get to waltz in and take over and make everyone just shut up and deal with it.