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Propaganda is a powerful drug.
I had an acquaintance try to tell me that Presidents didn't use executive orders before Obama. He was mad because Obama "started the whole executive order thing".
It took me a minute to process the level of stupid that it takes to actually believe that considering,
1.) The US constitution grants the president broad discretion over the executive branch.
2.) An "executive order" is nothing more than a directive from the president to an agency or department under the executive branch.
3.) Nearly every president since Washington has issued executive orders, although they weren't called "executive orders" and did not have any sort of numbering system until 1907.
So basically he was mad at Obama and every president thereafter for checks notes doing their job.
Same folks will be like, x issued more orders than any other president, but also excitedly talking about record revenue, turnout, etc. As if the stuff they agree with grows in a vacuum away from the stuff they disagree with.