re: #41 Belafon

The reality is that they do. And that each president doesn’t make as much of a break with the prior administration as you think. Most often, it’s an incremental change, not a major departure on policy. Major policy shifts are exceptions, not the rule. And a lot of that has to do with how separation of powers means that the president can do only so much without a helpful Congress.

In this respect, I think the Founders got it right - you get more consistent policy over the long term (for better or worse), rather than major changes every few years.

It’d be like President Obama enacted Obamacare. The GOP comes in, wipes it out, and then the next Democrat president enacts something just like Obamacare.

However, with the GOP controlling Congress, a GOPer in the WH would all but assure that Obamacare does get wiped out, so there is that.