“But over time, the executive branch grew exceedingly powerful. Two world wars emphasized the president’s commander in chief role and removed constraints on its power. By the second half of the 20th century, the republic was routinely fighting wars without its legislative branch, Congress, declaring war, as the Constitution required. With Congress often paralyzed by political conflict, presidents increasingly governed by edicts.”
Do you have to try to be that disingenuous or does it come natural?
What a thing is trying to be is pretty irrelevant to what it is. A wife-beater can talk all he wants about how hard he’s trying to stop beating his wife, but meanwhile she’s got a fresh supply of new bruises every day. Whether or not he’s trying to stop, what he’s doing is beating his wife, so is he a wife-beater or is he a changed man? Here’s a hint in case it’s not as obvious to you as it is to everyone else: he’s still a wife-beater, but that doesn’t mean he should stop trying to change.
The fact that the US talked a big game about democracy does not make it a democracy, but that also doesn’t mean it should’ve stop trying to become one.