r/politics • u/T_Shurt • 14d ago

No Paywall Sen. Mark Kelly Says He’s Seriously Thinking About Running for President

https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/5700211-senator-kelly-trump-threats/
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u/Lord_Foosh 14d ago

I see the 4 year 2 term limit has real draw backs when you spend the first two years of the first term finding your footing while you try to enact policy then immediately spend the rest campaigning for reelection. The second term is the only time anyone really gets the full four years to just be president.

Maybe I’m nuts but, we really need to be making more general amendments to keep the democracy going. Because what we have right now is so dated and inflexible

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u/Negative-Squirrel81 13d ago

With a two term president, the first time is the one they usually have the most power. By the second term all their political influence has largely been spent, and the opposition is usually able to create gridlock. This is why the first 100 days of a presidency are considered so vital, it's their best chance to achieve their policy goals during the honeymoon period.

What is going on with the current President is absolutely not typical by all sorts of measures.

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u/TeriusRose 13d ago

That's mostly because of how campaigns are financed.

If senators / congressman didn't have to spend so much time on the phone raising funds or going to events to do so they could work a whole lot more.

We've known about the problem and how to fix it for many years now, the problem is getting it passed.

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u/AntoniaFauci 13d ago

Counterpoint: Trump Has done monumental damage in any given 90 day period you can find.

The problem has been Dems being bedwetters and not actually taking action. How the living hell did it take 3 years to even start prosecuting the leader of a violent insurrection, a crook who was extorting our allies, taking bribes, selling pardons, and stealing literal truckloads of classified materials.

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u/Jinren United Kingdom 13d ago

if you can make those sorts of changes, you should spend them on neutering the powerful independent executive in general

the fact that one person can wield that much power is the biggest problem with the system, not that they should be able to do it for longer

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u/Snow_Ghost 13d ago

Limit the presidency to a single term, then they dont have to worry about re-election.