You're illustrating my point. The Democrat Executive checks it's own supposedly dominant position over the Legislative, while the GOP publishes it's own rationalizing of the unitary Executive, and as we're witnessing, carries it out.
Again, had the bigger problem been an Executive Branch growing in power at the expense of the Legislative rather than the actual bigger problem, the Republican Party, Obama would have gotten his Supreme Court nominee.
This "no one is innocent" notion is the binary false equivalency MAGA uses to rationalize it's deliberately destructive, zero sum pursuit of self-interest.
It was facetious. There's virtually no way any Trump voter can claim they didn't vote for a candidate that campaigned on tariffs. It wasn't some hidden agenda. The point being there's an significant chunk of the voting public that will believe what they want to believe regardless of what a candidate says or how they say it.
And that's the line that defines the two sides. One side hates the shit-sprayed reality it has no other option to oppose, one side has spent almost a decade broadcasting that it relishes it not as a means to an end, but as some moronic sewage-spackled end unto itself.
You know. Patriots.