When president Hindenburg made Adolf Hitler the chancellor in 1933, he was just trying to avoid a crisis but accidentally triggered another one. He had given Hitler enormous power, but he didn't know how much of it was too much, and neither do we. Let's delve deep into this question, how much power is too much power?
Leaders of different countries have different powers. In parliamentary democracies like India, the power is shared between the President and the Prime Minister. Even though the powers of the Presidents are namesake, he/she does have a say in some special topics. In presidential democracies, like the United States, all the executive power is bestowed with the President, with some key powers like selection of Supreme Court judges. However, this isn't absolute power and a lot of decisions have to be approved by the congress(parliament). In dictatorships, as the name suggests, all the power is with the leader. The leaders can do whatever they want, change the constitution and fire the judiciary. The leader isn't particularly elected and his power can not be challenged. An extreme example of this is North Korea, while others are the Monarchies of the Middle East.
Donald Trump, has a lot of power. Being the president of the United States, he plays a major role in controlling the global affairs. So do Vladimir Putin and Xi JinPing. They all have enormous powers, but is it too much? Is the ability to trigger the next world war, killing millions and potentially causing the extinction of humanity as we know it, too much power? Well, it is giving all three of them a lot of power. Hitler though, did not have a nuclear arsenal (nor did any other leader when the war started) but we still talk about how he had a lot of power. This is because the meaning of power changes from decade to decade, country to country and so forth. In a small, weak country having a lot of power could mean controlling an army of just a couple hundred thousand men while the meaning centuries ago could be having the most number of fleets.
Too much power is what sets the benchmark of real power. Centuries ago, too much power could have been having control over a lot of fleets and now, it could be having the most number of nuclear weapons. It, of course, is more complicated than just one item but that's how it goes. There is no fixed definition of having too much power. Napoleon Bonaparte, Adolf Hitler and Donald Trump all have/had too much power, in their own right. We can't stop anyone from having 'too much power' because the maximum power anyone has automatically becomes the benchmark of 'too much power'.
