One check-and-balance that people seem to have forgotten about recently is "what happens when your political opposition wields the power you want to create?"
Which is fascinating because for the last four years they haven’t been in power and at the same time that they’ve been calling for more central control they’ve been bemoaning how terrible the current executive is, and how bad it is that he’s doing all these things and someone has to stop him. Without a single hint of irony that they want to hand the office more power and control.
