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The GOP has caught autocratic fever

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Today, conservative Republicans have moved sharply toward embracing a more powerful chief executive with fewer checks and balances. A new Pew Research Center poll, found that a majority of conservative Republicans (52%) agree that many problems would be solved “if U.S. presidents didn’t have to worry so much about Congress or the courts.” That number has doubled since last year (26 percent) and quadrupled  from when Barack Obama was president in 2016 (13 percent). Now, just 41 percent choose the other option, that it “would be too risky to give U.S. presidents more power” to confront problems." Yikes... did they forget the reason for the SEPARATION OF POWERS?

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I began teaching in 1963,; Ba and BS in Education -Brooklyn College. I have the equivalent of 2 additional Master's, mainly in Literacy Studies and Graphic Design. I was the only seventh grade teacher of English from 1990 -1999 at East Side (more...)
 

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