Ross Douthat: The making of an imperial president

Let me be clear, as he likes to say: I believe that President Barack Obama was entirely sincere when he ran for president as a fierce critic of the imperial executive. I believe that he was in earnest when he told supporters in 2008 that America's "biggest problems" involved "George Bush trying to bring more and more power into the executive branch and not go through Congress at all."



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