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But none of them would share a dictator's belief that the President can, say, dissolve Congress or choose to ignore the Legislature altogether.

Why would a dictator want to dissolve Congress when that Congress is, for the most part, complying with his wishes? A clever dictator would realize that having a mostly compliant Congress is far more useful to him. It gives him a veneer of legitimacy.

The legislatures such a dictator would want to ignore or dissolve are the state legislatures who are not kowtowing to his wishes. They become the "enemy" that your ignorant base can be pointed at to conduct verbal and potentially physical attacks.

--Peter

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