Is Trump’s expansion of presidential powers setting the stage for future Oval Office holders?

Mechanisms designed to limit executive power - Congress, the courts and internal safeguards - are being undermined

Near corn dog and cookie vendors, Ray Seeman was washing his hands on a sweltering day. He had come to the rally in a Maga cap and a T-shirt that proclaimed: Cult 45: proud member. Is this a cult? It seems like it," he laughed. It seems like you're either in or you're out."

A cult, perhaps, but not an imperial presidency, Seeman insisted, though he does understand Donald Trump's frustrations. I don't like executive orders," he said. I like it to go through due process. But at the same time you've got to get stuff done sometimes."