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Or may be, well, not everything current administration is trying to do is bad.

Ruling by executive fiat isn't necessarily bad, but it's a hell of a trend. Should you be able to sidestep Congress to implement mandatory listing of drug pricing (especially when you also control one chamber of Congress)? Should you be able to sidestep a Supreme Court ruling by issuing an executive order? What legislative issue is the administration working around exactly?

Sometimes you do need someone with a vision to make the calls instead of a consensus. Especially when that consensus involves people on the receiving end of lobbying.

Which is to say, maybe we can start making lobbying less of a thing.

Exception to the rule

I dislike trump probably more than the median american (and have and will continue to put my money where my mouth is) but let's see:

1) lobbied for criminal justice reform (first step act)

2) has at least tried to make peace with north korea

3) pulled back some hawks from war with iran (and in three years has not initiated a new foreign war - by this time in his presidency Obama had already started to bomb Libya)

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