Trump targets checks and balances less than a week after winning

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Five days after he won a second term, one of Donald Trump’s first priorities was to take aim at a basic element of checks and balances.

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I suspect plenty of folks have forgotten what recess appointments are, but let's not miss the forest for the trees:

Five days after he won a second term, one of Trump's early priorities was to take aim at a basic element of checks and balances.

https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/trump-targets-checks-balances-less-week-winning-rcna179555

All things considered, however, the last thing Trump has to worry about is Senate confirmation of his nominees. The Republican majority is likely to have 53 members in the new Congress, and there will be nothing the Democratic minority — or even the GOP’s so-called “moderate” faction — can do to stop the Senate from serving as a rubber stamp for the incoming White House’s administrative selections.

And yet, the issue is apparently very much on the president-elect’s mind. NBC News reported:

President-elect Donald Trump on Sunday involved himself publicly in the Senate leadership race for the first time, writing on Truth Social that anyone running to be the next Senate majority leader should agree to let him make recess appointments to his cabinet.

The Senate GOP’s current leader, Kentucky’s Mitch McConnell, is poised to step down after 17 years. Three Republicans — South Dakota’s John Thune, Texas’ John Cornyn and Florida’s Rick Scott — are vying to succeed him, and by most accounts, Thune is the front-runner, though Scott has picked up enthusiastic backing from a variety of right-wing figures, including Elon Musk, Tucker Carlson, Glenn Beck and Charlie Kirk. (The leader will be chosen by way of a private ballot, so members won’t have to worry about too great a backlash.)......

But let’s not miss the forest for the trees: Five days after he won a second term, one of Trump’s first priorities was to take aim at a basic element of checks and balances. Despite the circumstances that will effectively ensure that all of his nominees are confirmed anyway, regardless of merit or qualification, the incoming Republican president wants greater authority to circumvent the Senate altogether and simply install whomever he wants to powerful posts.

When many of us warned ahead of Election Day that Trump, running on an authoritarian-style platform, would deliberately take steps to undermine democracy if he prevailed, we weren’t kidding.

TFG must be planning some really objectionable nominees

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1. Rachel on wild Trump appointments: 'It's shock and awe against American traditions'

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2. I remember people talking about Bush Jr. wanting to be a unitary executive.

But now we may just get it under this asshole, and WE WARNED PEOPLE!