What a garbage article. The monarchical impulses that exist are overwhelmingly on the left, where supporters of Obama urged him to take any steps necessary, including ignoring the will of the Congress and our constitutional structure, to implement his agenda.
The impulses existed since
long before His Excellency Al-Hashish Field Marshmallow Dr. Barack Obama
Dada was a blip on the presidential radar, and on both sides of the political aisle. I commend to your (and anyone's)
reading, once again, Mr. Healy's
The Cult of the Presidency (and its followup,
False Idol: Barack Obama and
the Continuing Cult of the Presidency) and Mr. (F.H.) Buckley's
The Once and Future King: The Rise of Crown
Government in America.
I've seen assorted supporters of most of my lifetime's presidents urging them to take any steps necessary including
ignoring Congress and even the Constitution to implement their agendae. Perhaps they have only become more
vocally noticeable in the Internet era, but they were as profound among George W. Bush's supporters as they were
among the supporters of His Excellency
and the old bat who would have been Queen Hilarious Rodent Clinton.
The author of the garbage article actually scored
more points off His Excellency and Would-Be-Queen Bat than he
scored off Donaldus Minimus. I might remind you, too, that there's little enough to stop a president---any president
---from nominating Supreme Court justices they hope, rhetorically anyway, to restore checks and balances, while
behaving concurrently as though checks and balances don't apply to the president when he (she?) finds them
inconvenient.
