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9/11 super-charged it, but the project of putting all power in the presidency started with Nixon. "If the president does it, it's not illegal".

Reagan ramped it up by pulling some similar moves to what Trump is doing. The Chevron doctrine came from Reagan admin running the EPA into the ground.



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