There may be no greater convert to the dubious virtues of unlimited executive power than a former skeptic who has taken up residence in the White House.
President Donald Trump, once a critic of the use of executive orders to bypass congressional inaction or opposition, now boasts of how many he's issued in his own name. The once-limited U.S. presidency looks increasingly like a not-so-constitutional monarchy that threatens to leave the legislative branch as a vestigial organ.
