Supreme leader trump made this same argument. His grace left caps lock on to remind us that Boasberg had never won an election and that donald trump had won every swing state, and because of that trump gets to do whatever he wants.
That part adds another couple db to the ringing alarm.
Instead of treating a POTUS election win as binary...you won or you lost...he's implying (saying?) there are levels to an election win, that a POTUS that didn't carry X amount is not legit.
For sure there's a concept of a mandate, that a massive win = more prestige. But that doesn't mean a "lesser" winner does not hold the same amount of defined Executive power.
It's one thing to overturn prior POTUS EOs, it's another to say that prior POTUS acts are null because they didn't receive X popular and/or electoral votes. At least that's how I'm reading what he vomited out on social media.
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u/StashedandPainless 19d ago
Supreme leader trump made this same argument. His grace left caps lock on to remind us that Boasberg had never won an election and that donald trump had won every swing state, and because of that trump gets to do whatever he wants.