This is the Cato Daily Podcast for Friday, March 18th, 2016.

I'm Caleb Brown.

Before the next occupant of the White House arrives, Barack Obama might consider going to Congress to take steps to

tyrant proof the executive so says Connor Friedersdorf a columnist at the

Atlantic we spoke before an event entitled was the Libertarian moment wishful

thinking held this week.

I like to ask many of my friends of both political parties when they're defending some

assertion of presidential authority, be they Republicans or Democrats.

Do you trust President X or will you trust President X with these powers?

And now I get to ask everybody pretty much equally do you will you trust

President Trump with all the powers that presidents Bush and Obama seem to have

asserted so your idea is that Congress and President Obama ought to take steps to, as you say,

the tyrant or tyrant proof.

Tyrant proof the White House.

So what does that look like? Well, I think the attitude... Tyrant proof the White House.

So what does that look like?

Well, I think the attitude overall should be that of paranoid parents with a destructive

toddler that's going to be coming into a new environment.

And we need to think, think okay what's everything that could

possibly go wrong with President Trump and the White House and looking back to the

fights over executive power during the Bush and Obama administrations and even the Clinton administration

before that.

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