Are modern presidents basically inconsequential?

We pretty much proved in the last term of it the guy whose name is on the desk doesn't even have to really be in charge!

No, that is what makes them very consequential.

No, they're the most consequential BECAUSE of Congress's inability to legislate. We have no steady course as a country because of the significant swings in policy brought about by way of the overreliance on the EO to govern. We have essentially neutered a third of our governmental system. It has — however fleeting a four to eight year stint is — concentrated way too much power into the hands of the Executive branch, creating a revolving soft dictatorship.

What it has done is make it nearly impossible for any president to build a true legacy, as those EOs are just as easily undone as they are done while amplifying the immediate impact of Executive authority on our daily lives.

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With the inability to pass law

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That's not his job nor his fault. We are a divided country as is the Congress.

Politicians are basically inconsequential
bro. You have to talk to their owners

Biden was as consequential as any president. Trump will be the most consequential and best, in modern history.

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My rationale is that 6 months after Trump
Is out of office, the vast majority of his EOs will have been undone thus making him inconsequential.

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If you're talking about direct impacts on your day-to-day life the drastic policy swings that occur every 4-8 years due to the overreliance on the Executive Order means the President has immense power. There is no stability in policy, no standards, nothing is codified — meaning that practically everything can change with the stroke of a pen.

Removing Congress, a third of our government, from the equation does nothing but concentrate power in the Executive because the only way an agenda or platform can be implemented is via the EO. What you're talking about is a President building a lasting legacy which doesn't happen anymore, but rest assured, the power of the Exective branch of our government has increased greatly at the expense of the Legislative branch. Whether people want to admit it or not, Donald Trump — via the EO and subsequent legal challenges to that authority — has done more than any other president in the modern era to consolidate power in the Executive. That is only a good thing as long as your team has the ball.

Was Biden inconsequential?

Has Trump been inconsequential?

Was Osama inconsequential?

Would Killary had been inconsequential?

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With the inability to pass law,

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Congress abdicated their duties long ago.

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Congress has been criticized for abdicating its lawmaking responsibilities to the executive branch, allowing agency heads to create rules and regulations that effectively function as laws.

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That all sounded like a great idea to them when the globalists were in power (GWB, Obama, Trump1 to some extent, Biden, etc) and likely created the avalanche of executive orders we've gotten in recent decades.

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Other than major foreign affair blunders by all of them, nothing that has been done really mattered in the grand scheme of things.

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I sold my share of a business a few years ago and thanked God for Donald Trump’s tax cuts.