Now’s the time for Congress to touch base with its backbone
The last four years have given us a real-life lesson in presidentialism run amok. It didn’t start with Trump but it can end with him.
Ivan R. Eland is Senior Fellow at the Independent Institute and Director of the Independent Institute’s Center on Peace & Liberty. Previously he was Director of Defense Policy Studies at the Cato Institute, and he spent 15 years working for Congress on national security issues, including stints as an investigator for the House Foreign Affairs Committee and Principal Defense Analyst at the Congressional Budget Office. He is the author of several books, the most recent, War and the Rogue Presidency: Restoring the Republic after Congressional Failure. Follow him on Twitter @Ivan_Eland
The last four years have given us a real-life lesson in presidentialism run amok. It didn’t start with Trump but it can end with him.
Trump wasn’t the first, and he won’t be the last POTUS to expand and exploit executive power — if Congress doesn’t act.