Excluded Part 6 - Whose President Are You, Anyway?

One of the great unasked questions of American politics and society is whom does the president represent and work for?

More important is the fact that as the holder of the only political office which all the American people vote for, (of course, even this is not true because in reality it is the Electoral College, an obvious barrier to the popular vote that decides) the answer about the president should be obvious.

 The question in 2025, in the midst of Donald Trump’s second term is even more relevant because he lays bare all the contradictions of the presidency, and the American political system, in a manner never done before.

As we have noted in Excluded Part 5, the American political system is neither under the control of the American people or works for their benefit even in a minor way.

Again, as we have pointed out in Excluded Part1, this is its default position because it was systematically founded by the elite to work for, and on behalf of, the elite.

So, it is important to continue with the illusion of democracy, and the hopes of the American electorate, that the president represents them.  

Unfortunately, for them as Trump is proving and American presidents have confirmed to the people, with occasional short-term exception, that the president in Joe Biden’s immortal self-incriminating sentence, ‘I do not work for you.’

This is the story of how the American presidency was set up to work, and how it has largely worked, in USA history. 

Ref: Jill Lepore - These Truths (A History of the United States) W W Norton & Company 2018