[exasperaited]

Oh, that isn't what I mean, and I am willing to accept your view. (And I was joking a bit anyway)

What I mean about the beginning of an empire is, as I said -- the beginning of a true individual, not simply unitary, emperor. That the executive is transforming into l'état, c'est moi, which no US president has had the luxury of ever before, because Congress wouldn't ever have handed over the influence and authority they had.