Both major parties have been giving up the power of Congress for decades. They’r...

Both major parties have been giving up the power of Congress for decades. They’re constantly handing more power to the executive, seemingly because it lets them dodge responsibility. People get mad at you when you do stuff, but if you just vest some power in an executive agency then people get mad at the President instead when that agency does the stuff.

People have been warning for a long time that this concentration of power in the executive is ripe for abuse. And here we are.