[Cardfan1]

- No the growth of executive power was not limited only to the Nixon Presidency. That's been a long trend.

- Not in the way you're characterizing. In 2010 the people began to rise up out of a sense of concern that the nation was being turned into something other than traditional America. By 2016 enough had awoken to the specter of Obama's fundamental transformation so as to halt the slide. I doubt you can take it for granted that the left has that concern safely abated for 2020.

- Nope. Only the one Dems publicly declared on election night.

The passage of the 1974 Impoundment Act was in response to Nixon.

So if the opposite occurs in 2020 or 2024 will you say that the people rose up in the sense of concern that the nation was being turned into something other than traditional America? Republicans lost the House last year. The Senate and/or Presidency is up for grabs this year. It's pretty reasonable to expect a political shift.

With social media and the constant newscycle, we get a lot of voices these days that aren't always reasonable. Some of that post-election noise was just that.