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Politics : The Trump Presidency -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: i-node who wrote (142608)	11/6/2019 12:23:00 PM
From: kidl	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 355627

Are presidents bound by their predecessors into dysfunctional procedures? Or may presidents choose to simply say, "That's not how we do it anymore, because that didn't work"? Without getting into endless arguments as to what worked or didn’t work in the past ... Yes, the populus in democratic countries tries to bring about (often needed) change via their votes only to find out that they have been conned by soon forgotten platform promises and/or the “Jackal and Hide” type personalities. Being of German origin, I view the rise of the AfD with equal concern as the direction of the Trump presidency. The for me scary part in both examples: The thinly veiled “call to arms”. Trump is “joking” about staying in power well beyond what your constitution allows. I don’t think he is joking!

To: i-node who wrote (142608)	11/6/2019 12:53:40 PM
From: Lane3	Respond to of 355627

Or may presidents choose to simply say, "That's not how we do it anymore, because that didn't work"? Kate's comment suggested that the parties were working off their own personal policy despite Trump's superseding new policy. My question to Kate was what made her think that. What Trump policy were they given, how and when? It's not apparent to me that they were given any new policy to implement. I say that because of what it takes to put together and launch a new policy and the apparent absence of footprints from that. It seems quite possible if not likely that the parties would have simply been working off the extant policy out of inertia in the absence of a new policy. So, in answer to your question, of course presidents can change the policy. By "simply say[ing] that's not how we do it anymore," if that, not so much.