• TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    Agree to disagree on the power she has, and I know very, very well how all this works.

    I think you are failing to appreciate the role of rhetoric in leadership and politics and how things actually work. The job is ENTIRELY rhetorical and the job of the President is to move public opinions in specific ways toward policy positions they want them to take.

    Everything after the rheotoric is an afterthought.