Republicans Now Are More Open to the Idea of Expanding Presidential Power
Pew Research Center for the People and the Press 127d 11 tweets
Most Americans continue to say that it would be “too risky” to give the nation’s presidents more power, but the share expressing this opinion has declined


Pew Research Center 9d ago
The share of Republicans who say presidents could operate more effectively if they did not have to worry so much about Congress and the courts increased 16 percentage points over the past year, from 27% in March 2018 to 43% this past July.
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Pew Research Center 122d ago
Currently, 45% of the U.S. public has a favorable opinion of the Republican Party, while 52% view the GOP unfavorably. Opinions about the Democratic Party are the same (45% favorable, 52% unfavorable).
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Pew Research Center 64d ago
In our July survey, a growing share of Republicans said the nation's problems could be dealt with more effectively if U.S. presidents "didn’t have to worry so much about Congress or the courts."
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Pew Research Center 63d ago
In July, 82% of Democrats and 51% of Republicans said it would be too risky to give U.S. presidents more power.
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Pew Research Center 122d ago
Republicans are now more open to the idea of expanding presidential power
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Lee Rainie 126d ago
Serious jump in Republican support for the idea of expanding presidential power in new survey. Still, 66% of overall public says "it would be too risky to give U.S. presidents more power to deal with many of the country's problems."
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Brendan Nyhan 122d ago
Almost half of Republicans (43%) endorsing giving more power to the President instead of Congress and the courts - compares to 29% for Dems under Obama
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Tom Nichols 8d ago
When a political party thinks this way, the separation of powers is fundamentally ruptured and will not recover overnight. GOP electeds already think this; but worse, it's where the GOP rank and file is headed, and it won't be stopping anytime soon: /9
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John Avlon 127d ago
This Week in Situational Ethics: Republicans Now Are More Open to the Idea of Expanding Presidential Power - (a 3x increase since '16)
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Will Saletan 126d ago
In just 17 months, "conservatives" went from 70%-26% opposed to expanding presidential power (allowing the president to bypass "Congress or the courts”) to 52%-41% in favor. Most self-identified "conservatives" aren't conservative. They're authoritarian.
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