RevengeofKropotkin

That’s a textbook straight out of Harry Potter lol

All due respect, we have plenty of examples of checks and balances in action since Trump became President. Why not start with the numerous injunctions ordered against his plans (e.g. the travel ban, family separation) or how the left has come to find a renewed passion for Federalism (e.g. California pushing back against Trump on a range of issues, from its sanctuary state policy to, yes, net neutrality).

Also, people in this thread continue to make normative arguments to ‘prove’ checks and balances no longer exist. Merely because policy one disagrees with has been implemented does not mean that checks and balances no longer exist. Those things are independent of one another. Equating the existence of checks and balances with policy one favors is fallacious.