Stop Blaming Democrats for Republican Intransigence
During Obama’s presidency, a critique emerged that, if only he tried hard enough, he could be more successful in enacting the Democratic agenda. Brendan Nyhan famously labeled this the “Green Lantern theory of the presidency.” According to Brendan Nyhan, the Dartmouth political scientist who coined the term, the Green Lantern Theory of the Presidency is “the belief that the...