I’ve observed with growing frequency that numerous commentators on the media speak about who runs the nation. Many proper wingers suppose that Joe Biden was purported to run the nation however didn’t and, as a substitute, he deferred to a troika who ran the nation. Many individuals throughout the spectrum suppose that Donald Trump at present runs the nation.
They’re all unsuitable. Nobody runs the nation.
Consider all the choices that you just make in a day. On what number of of them does the U.S. president determine? Near zero. He can affect your choices, however he doesn’t run your life. And if he doesn’t run your life and doesn’t run the lives of over 300 million different residents of the US, how might he run the nation?
What folks might imply is that the U.S. president runs the federal authorities. However that’s not true both. Recall your civics class. There are 3 branches of the federal authorities: government, legislative, and judicial. The president runs the manager department and even there, there are government companies with some autonomy. Consider the Federal Reserve, for instance. So at most the president runs one third of the federal authorities.
On a associated word: Folks usually say that the president is the commander in chief of the nation. No, he’s not. He’s the commander in chief of the army, which is lower than 1% of the nation.