For years, we’ve been told that the great divide in America is between left and right. But that’s a distraction from the real story — a slow, decades-long surrender of power from We the People to the executive branch.
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Since 9/11, every administration — Republican and Democrat alike — has stretched the limits of Article II. The Patriot Act gave the presidency near-monarchical surveillance powers. Obama’s executive orders expanded the precedent. Trump simply took the crown and waved it in public.
In this video, Tony Michaels breaks down how America’s realignment isn’t ideological at all. It’s constitutional. The Overton window didn’t move — it stretched — until Congress (Article I) became a spectator and the courts (Article III) our last guardrail. What we’re feeling now — the chaos, the anger, the polarization — is the snap-back of that stretch.
The real villain isn’t Trump alone. It’s the executive power we’ve allowed to grow unchecked, turning the presidency into the very monarchy our founders fought to escape.
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