Billionaire Mark Cuban liked to float his name in presidential speculation for years. If he were serious about it dsuring that time, perhaps he would have learned how the federal government even works.
On social media, conservative activist Christopher Rufo claimed that “the president should have more authority over the federal bureaucracy, so that it implements his policies faithfully,” while “Congress and the president should decentralize as much power as possible to states, localities, and families.” This is pretty boilerplate conservative stuff, and Rufo is correct.
Cuban objected to that first part about the president having more authority over the federal bureaucracy as “terrifying and problematic” because “isn’t this the antithesis of having 3 equal branches of government?”
More than half of voters can’t name the three branches of government, and apparently, Cuban is among that group. Otherwise, his comment doesn’t make sense. The federal bureaucracy is part of the executive branch, and the president is the chief executive. The executive branch answers to the president. The three branches of government are the executive, legislative, and judicial. That is the president (and the bureaucracy he leads), Congress, and the courts.
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It isn’t clear what point Cuban is making. Either he simply did not know that the federal bureaucracy is not a branch of government with checks and balances on the president, or he simply ignored Rufo’s assertion that Congress and the president should decentralize power and cede it to the states. Rufo was clearly saying that the president should have less power but should have total control over the bureaucracy that is supposed to work for him, a notable problem given that members of the bureaucracy were purposely and proudly undermining the Trump administration during the former president’s four-year term.
Cuban regularly opines on politics and culture without knowing what he is talking about, but this might be his worst work yet. Again, none of this should matter, but Cuban for years humored running for president. Even after saying late last year that he would never run for president, Cuban is an outspoken billionaire who thinks his endorsement should carry weight. The least he could do is learn what the people he is endorsing actually do.