Omitted thus far from the extensive academic literature on limiting executive power is hide-and-seek. Long thought to be a game for children, hide-and-seek plays a significant part of Bob Woodward's new book on the Trump Administration. According to excerpts published today in the Washington Post, certain presidential aides who wanted to block an executive decision just removed the relevant paperwork from the President's desk and hid it somewhere. (I understand that there is a flowerpot in the Rose Garden that is especially great for concealing draft executive orders.) The President, being too busy watching TV or tweeting, never noticed that the documents were missing. This might also explain why so many Oval Office meetings include an aide telling the President: "Quick! Look out of the window!" to create a momentary distraction.
The wisdom of Churchill's comment that "Democracy is the worst form of Government except for all those other forms that have been tried" becomes clearer to me as I get older.
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