Showing posts with label Executive Reform. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Executive Reform. Show all posts

Sunday, January 24, 2021

CREW Draws a Roadmap for Presidential Accountability in the Post-Trump Era

by Nomad


The Lessons Trump Taught Us

The Trump era is finally over and the Biden era has begun. It is perhaps human nature not to want to look back over the previous four years. It was too horrible, too shameful, and too humiliating a period for America. We are exhausted and we need time to forget what happened.
  
And yet, it would be an enormous mistake not to review the failure to hold the executive branch accountable. It was, after all, not merely the criminality of one man, or one administration, or one party. It was a systemic failure of the entire oversight process.