It’s not the consolidation of power by one man. Congress could pass a law to stop any of his executive orders anytime they wanted to. The court could stop a few of them.
In order for Congress to pass a law it needs to make it through the Senate. Mitch McConnell owns the Senate right now. Note the behavior of the President's supporters during the impeachment trial, they were all dutifully in line.
Compare that with a previous generation where the GOP leadership went to the President and told him they could not support him because he had gone too far, and Nixon therefore resigned.
Justices Roberts was a figurehead at the trial and his actions were supportive of the outcome.
This is not "normal"; this is not the democracy I learned back in the day.
Compare that with a previous generation where the GOP leadership went to the President and told him they could not support him because he had gone too far, and Nixon therefore resigned.
Justices Roberts was a figurehead at the trial and his actions were supportive of the outcome.
This is not "normal"; this is not the democracy I learned back in the day.