Of course he said that.
That’s Trump in a nutshell. You don’t need to talk to other people, you’re the boss, you decide everything all by yourself, you don’t need a team, you don’t need information, you don’t need advice, you don’t need understanding, you don’t need a range of views, you don’t need to think – you just do the Big Boy Pants thing, end of story.
That’s the “dealmaker.”
“What you mean you need to talk it over with your wife? Who’s the boss over there at your house, what color apron do you wear when you clean the house for her? There’s nothing to talk about, sign and she’ll love it. “
He believes in “One Man, One Vote” as long as he is that One Man.
(Copied from Terry Pratchett)
See, Donald, that’s the difference between a Parliamentary system and a Presidential one. The convention – OK, maybe it’s a polite fiction, but it has its uses – is that the Prime Minister is the prime minister, not the only minister. He’s primus inter pares; at bottom, just one minister among others.
Oddly, though the UK is a monarchy, it is in some ways much less of a monarchy than the US.
It’s true. I’ve seen or heard it pointed out more than a few times that it’s not an unmixed blessing that the US president has to do the ceremonial stuff along with the grubby day to day governing stuff. Goes to their heads, and unlike ceremonial monarchs, they have power.
I blame the Constitution. It’s a pretty good document, but it’s showing its age. The advantage of not having a codified consitution is that we can look at things that actually do happen, and deduce what the constitutional position is on the basis of that. Alternatively, every other Western country with a codified constitution has had the good taste to be utterly defeated in war at least once over the past hundred years or so (maybe defeated by a neighbour; maybe having contrived a civil war in which they were defeated by… er… themselves), or to have a dictator die, which is a great excuse to rip things up and start again. Hell, the French even did it without being utterly defeated when they invented the Fifth Republic.
But I guess that that’s just the French for you.
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