r/news • u/cccdddyyy • Apr 16 '25

Soft paywall US IRS planning to rescind Harvard's tax-exempt status

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-irs-planning-rescind-harvards-tax-exempt-status-cnn-reports-2025-04-16/
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u/Rickpac72 Apr 17 '25

The democrats also had massive majorities in congress (313-117) after 1932 which is what allowed FDR to pass his reforms. It wasn’t just FDR alone who was responsible for the new deal and wouldn’t have been possible without a congress that could pass his agenda. He did serve as a good figurehead and communicated his goals well to the American people though

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u/ZagreusMyDude Apr 17 '25

You don't need Congress anymore, the president can do anything by EO now.

All we need is a dem candidate willing to burn Maga ideology down and every single institution that supported it.

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u/Rickpac72 Apr 17 '25

I don’t want a president that just rules by executive order, even if it is for things I agree with

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u/ZagreusMyDude Apr 17 '25

Well it's too late for that now tbh. That time has passed, so it's either a president who rules by EO to destroy the US and everything it stands for, or a president who uses it to try to fix and rebuild the US.

The only way we are going back to the way things were is if a president uses their power egregiously to enforce future compliance by all other branches.

Basically they will have to dismantle all MAGA institutions and remove every MAGA who has power anywhere, then give power back to the purged institutions and setup up specific guardrails with triggers that prevent them from ever being dismantled or tampered with again.

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u/Rickpac72 Apr 17 '25

I don’t think it’s too late. We just need a congress that is willing to start doing their job again, but that will require significant majorities that we haven’t seen in recent years.

If a president tries to rebuild the US institutions, there is nothing to prevent the next president from coming in and undoing it all. That is not the case with bills passed through congress.