From the article:
One of the few aspects of Obama’s legacy likely to survive the Trump years is his mainstreaming of the notion that the executive branch has an authority to do whatever it likes if the law-making branch “fails to act” — a phrase Democrats used incessantly over the past six years.
The mainstreaming of that notion really began in earnest during the Clinton administration, continued apace
under George W. Bush (after
how many on the right and not enough on the left had been ripping Clinton
for it?), ramped up further under His Excellency Obama (after
how many on the left and not enough on
the right bitched about Bush doing it?), and now we have Donaldus Minimus, too, behaving like an elected
monarch (yes, the left bitches about it, but how come more on the right don't, especially when
they'resupposed to be the ones so big on properly-balanced government?), only too eager (it often seems)
to wield the excessive executive power bequeathed him. What a surprise. He rarely if ever spoke in terms of
reducing government in fact or in powers.