| ▲ | ykurtov an hour ago | |
I don’t get why journalists keep calling appointed bureaucrats “czars”. That absolute power fetish begun in second Trump term and didn’t seem to age well. Do they expect any of those czars to kill any of their children to protect their position? Fair enough, some of US czars actually had their private firing squads. And they did kill people at their will. And remained unpunished. But for the love of the people I wouldn’t bow to people like Bovino in a tech article. Anyways, I can’t imagine that’s what US people want. | ||
| ▲ | schoen an hour ago | parent [-] | |
It dates to the 1930s under Roosevelt and became common again in the 1970s and has remained fairly common since then: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Czar_(political_term)#Modern_u... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._executive_branch_... | ||