Checks and Balances: Noah Rosenblum considers the antifascist origins of US presidential administration
For much of the United States’s history, the president’s powers were relatively weak, by design. The framers of the Constitution did not want to create a de facto monarchy. But recent presidents have exerted their authority in ways that have sometimes prompted accusations of executive overreach—for example, through unilateral actions like executive orders, used by Donald Trump to implement the so-called “Muslim ban,” and by Joe Biden to cancel student loan debt.
Source: nyu.edu