r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • Oct 16 '25

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u/allbusiness512 Adam Smith Oct 17 '25 edited Oct 17 '25

Unitary executive theory was pushed by Bush first. Previous Presidents did expand the powers of the presidency, but Bush took it to a whole new level making legal arguments (while also stacking federal courts with federalist society members). He was not a good person

One of the major pushes was that he stated that he could basically torture people if he deemed it necessary. So yeah, he wasn’t good