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U.S. President Donald Trump at Kuala Lumpur Convention Centre on Sunday in Malaysia.

Where have you gone, members of the United States Congress? If the continuing Washington melodrama had a Simon and Garfunkel song for a soundtrack, the answer would be that the House of Representatives and the Senate in effect have “left and gone away.”

That verse in a hit song from 1968, another period of political tumult and social upheaval, offers a crisp and efficient assessment of contemporary American politics. Once again – it happened under Andrew Jackson, Theodore and Franklin Roosevelt, Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan – the executive branch is in the ascendancy and the legislative branch is in retreat.

But, in the case of the second term of President Donald Trump , C

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