re: Does the president even have any power?

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Trump as a dictator is a better system than what we currently have

I’d welcome it honestly - at least for a little bit so he can clean things up

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i bet you would comrade

The president's ultimate power lies in SCOTUS. If even a right leaning court tells a GOP president, "No," then POTUS is likely overstepping his bounds.

What it all comes down to is that there are five people who run the country. POTUS, the Speaker of the House and the minority leader, and the majority and minorities leaders in the Senate. POTUS controls the bureaucratic state, while the congressional leadership controls all bills and committee assignments.

Justin Amash did a good job explaining this...

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Q: Why is Congress broken, and how do we fix it?

A: We don't know exactly how Congress got to where it is, but today it is highly centralized, where a few people at the top control everything. That has a lot of negative consequences for our country. Among them is that the president has an unbelievable amount of power because the president now only has to negotiate with really a few people. You have to negotiate with the speaker of the House. You have to negotiate with the Senate majority leader and maybe some of the minority leaders. It's really a small subset of people that you have to negotiate with. When that happens, it gives the president so much leverage.

When we talk about things like going to war without authorization, as long as the speaker of the House isn't going to hold the president accountable and the Senate majority leader is not going to, the president is just going to do what he wants to do. When it comes to spending, as long as the president only has to negotiate with a couple of people, the president's going to do whatever the president wants to do. It's super easy in the system for the president to essentially bully Congress and dictate the outcomes.

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