People significantly underestimate the degree to which the American constitution is now being defined by Nixon/Reagan/Bush government lawyers who disliked having to be responsive to a Democratic-controlled Congress.
Unitary executive theory is an example:
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Roberts, Alito and Thomas all cut their teeth in a Reagan administration eager to expand the outer limits of executive power. Kavanaugh did the same under George W. Bush who tried to make the unitary executive a reality.
In 75 years, we went from a nation that championed the prosecution of Nazis at Nuremberg, where "just following orders" was rejected as a defense for war crimes, to a country where crimes by the President are "official acts," and therefore fine and dandy.
SCOUTS to US: Fascism is fine when we do it
