Gene Healy, a former colleague, is back from a blogging hiatus.
He has a new book coming out, The Cult of the Presidency: America’s Dangerous Devotion to Presidential Power. The gist of it is that a lot of people think of the President as some kind of national savior and spiritual protector. Think an amalgam of Superman, Jesus Christ, and Santa Claus. Gene thinks those expectations are bit much. He sees a more modest role for the executive branch.
Looks like a good book. It’s certainly timely. All three remaining candidates share grandiose, outsized conceptions of the Presidency.
Inertia Wins! 