There is no inconsistency here at all. Both of these statements are obviously true. With respect to trade policy, Congress has little power because, over the past century, it has delegated most of its power to the President. In order to take that power back, it would need to overcome a presidential veto.
There is no inconsistency here at all. Both of these statements are obviously true. With respect to trade policy, Congress has little power because, over the past century, it has delegated most of its power to the President. In order to take that power back, it would need to overcome a presidential veto.
Overall, Biden has been a mediocre leader - better than Trump, maybe better than Obama, but not in the same league as Reagan, Bush, and Clinton, who gave us 20 straight years of strong foreign policy between them.
Respectfully, I don't see how they're both obviously true. The US doesn't get to practice deterrence alone when it leads an alliance focused on Russia. I think it's highly unlikely that Estonia and Italy or Poland and Portugal share the same sense of how to deal with Russian aggression (and that doesn't even include Hungary). It's easy to imagine that if Biden had pushed the Russians harder the alliance would have been shaken, if not splintered. Neither you nor I know what would have happened.
There is no inconsistency here at all. Both of these statements are obviously true. With respect to trade policy, Congress has little power because, over the past century, it has delegated most of its power to the President. In order to take that power back, it would need to overcome a presidential veto.
Overall, Biden has been a mediocre leader - better than Trump, maybe better than Obama, but not in the same league as Reagan, Bush, and Clinton, who gave us 20 straight years of strong foreign policy between them.
Respectfully, I don't see how they're both obviously true. The US doesn't get to practice deterrence alone when it leads an alliance focused on Russia. I think it's highly unlikely that Estonia and Italy or Poland and Portugal share the same sense of how to deal with Russian aggression (and that doesn't even include Hungary). It's easy to imagine that if Biden had pushed the Russians harder the alliance would have been shaken, if not splintered. Neither you nor I know what would have happened.