"Trump’s administration has quickly moved beyond normal policy disputes into the realm of constitutional crisis. His claim of authority to override courts, ignore Congress, and rule by decree presents Americans with a stark choice: They can defend their constitutional system, with all its frustrating checks and balances, or they can embrace an authoritarian leader who promises to impose their preferred policies by force.
"The former path preserves liberty, even when policies disappoint. The latter leads, inevitably, to tyranny. Those who think Trump’s authoritarianism serves conservative ends should remember that power, once unleashed, outlives its wielder. The precedent Trump seeks to set would be available to every future President — including those with very different ideological aims.
"America’s founders created a system of checks and balances precisely to prevent the concentration of power they had fled in Europe. They knew that liberty depends not on the character of individual leaders, but on binding all leaders within constitutional constraints.
"That system now faces its greatest test since the Civil War."~ Roger Partridge from his op-ed 'Trump’s War on Constitutional Democracy'
UPDATE: James Allan, a colleague of Roger Partridge's and a former Otago law professor —and normally one of the good guys — pushes back against Partridge's column. "Silly," he calls it. "Sensible," I would have said.
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Perhaps it's the greatest test since the civil war, because America has never been so far off from it's Constitution than since Civil War.
America's judiciary is as activist and captured by Marxists as New Zealand's is. When a judge rules the president of the country isn't even allowed to look into the books and payments of the Federal Reserve, and make them transparent to the people - their tax money - then perhaps it's well past time for a Patriot President to get the country back to its constitution.
"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." ... And this president whom, first day, cemented in the primacy of free speech and the small state, is no tyrant.
"Perhaps it's the greatest test since the civil war, because America has never been so far off from it's Constitution than since Civil War." Well, perhaps also because this attempted executive takeover is the greatest threat since then? As Mr Partridge spends some time arguing.
"When a judge rules the president of the country isn't even allowed to look into the books and payments of the Federal Reserve..." What on earth are you taking about? The Federal Reserve is nominally independent, and nothing to do with tax. You're raving.
"...this president whom [sic], first day, cemented in the primacy of free speech and the small state ..." Not just raving, but deluded.
I’ve come to the conclusion they’re a religious cult Peter. Whatever the evidence, even something as obviously idiotic as his statements about Ukraine; they’re so invested in their messiah that they’ll twist their interpretation of the facts to justify their faith. There’s no reasoning with them. They’re literally retarded.
Cult? Yeah right. My last tweet:
And no, Trump is not perfect, I hate his approach to Ukraine, but he is the disrupter the free world had to have.
Already the EU is upping its defence budgets and realising they need to change.
And net zero and woke in all its forms - DEI, blokes in women's spaces, et al - around the West is finally being attacked from the mightiest economy. And that had to happen because the West had become an insane asylum.
Even better if this sees the roll back of Islamism into the heart of our democracies.
Yes, some folk have a cognitive blind spot when it comes to Trump.
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