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Right, this is why we fought a war to get rid of the monarchy.
Ever since Donald Trump was elected, I always had the impression that he just doesn't properly understand that being elected president is a fundamentally different thing from being crowned king.
I’ll go one better, I think a plurality of Americans think similarly to this
The whole leader != ruler thing seems to trip up a lot of people on the right.
To be fair, there seem to be many on the left that don't get this either. I've seen people insisting that they won't vote for Biden again because he didn't enact a long list of Progressive desires.
They completely ignore that Biden can't just singlehandedly declare new laws. He needs things to get through Congress. Then, he can pass them, but they can be overturned by the Supreme Court. With the 50-50 split Senate and the Republican controlled House, it's difficult to get much passed. With the conservative Supreme Court, it's hard to keep things from getting overturned.
If Biden had large Democratic majorities in the House/Senate/Supreme Court, then perhaps there would be a valid criticism, but even then blame wouldn't be focused on Biden alone.
You mean losers dont understand power.
He didn't want it to be a fundamentally different thing, so he did everything he could to eliminate all differences.
Right. Presidents have actual authority.
“Terrorists in Boston dumping perfectly good British tea in the harbor. In my day we knew what to do with traitors to the crown. Many such cases in our colonial carnage. Tell good king George to make me royal governor!”
Except over 100 years before the war of Independance you had the trial of King Charles I, where thr Britjsh Parliament made a point that not even Kings were above the law.