Has Trump exposed a fundamental weakness in Congress? | The News Agents

Trump, this administration has exposed the weaknesses of the system and how much it was dependent on norms as much as long. And the source of the weakness, I mean, the immediate source of the weakness is the congressional Republicans being so afraid of the president, they won't take any action against him. But he is basically usurping their authority and they're not doing much about it. And that's something that, I mean, obviously Americans talk all the time about the founders and their wisdom. That's just something they didn't consider. They just didn't think that the first branch of government, i.e. Congress, would be willing to cede its power so comprehensively to a quasi-tyrannical president. And there was this feeling in the very early days, and Doge was, I think, part of the purpose of Doge from the point of view of the people who are actually orchestrating Trump's government campaign, and it's mainly a fellow named Russell Note. But part of the usefulness of Doge was to just see what they could get away with. It's like, see how far it could be pushed. and see what would cause a kind of backlash or reaction in Congress. And I wonder, you know, when the dust settles on this, when you go, if you could have a private conversation with Ruffalo, if even he was surprised by how far they could go, that no one really stepped in to stop him or to question him very much. But that's going to change, right? After the midterms, the House is certainly going to change hands, and probably the Senate, and there's going to be an opportunity for Congress to seize back its powers. Will the Trump administration comply with subpoenas in Congress? Or will he just pardon everybody involved? It feels to me it's not going to be like 2016. It won't be as simple. You're right, it won't be as simple. But what he's done, you know, much of what they've done is the opposite of what they've said they're doing. In this, with the supposed rooting out of waste fraud abuse, at exactly the same time, They were eliminating all the real mechanisms for finding waste fraud abuse. There were people in all the agencies, all the inspectors general, who were independent, who were there for whistleblowers. That's right. I suspect what we're going to have is a reaction much like after Watergate, that Congress is going to figure out how to create more guardrails and pin in the president in various ways.