"ENOUGH!
"As a strong supporter of many of the Trump administration's ultimate objectives in rolling back leftist nihilism, I have to say that his methods of doing so have become nakedly, unconstitutionally lawless. That's not just my opinion, or the left's. It's the opinion of many distinguished conservative and libertarian legal scholars, such as those who opine in this linked piece. Andrew McCarthy, Jonathan Adler, Ed Whelan, and Ilya Somin, for example, would never be accused of leftist premises or policy goals; but they are alarmed at the increasingly authoritarian behaviour of this president and his butt-kissing sycophants in Congress and the White House, and provide a long list of particulars.
"The Constitution was explicitly designed by Madison et al. as a means of providing limits on the centralisation and use of power. It is not designed to ratify the use of unlimited power whenever the government, or the president, whimsically decides to wield it 'for a good cause.'
"You do not undo the left's grossly unconstitutional power grabs and shameless violations of individual rights by employing the same thuggish tactics for your own objectives. I have been thinking for some time that Trump appears to be modelling his governing style after 'The Godfather,' and one of the commentators in this article even says as much, comparing his behaviour to that of a Mafia boss. The dead end of that sort of behaviour is not the salvation of America, but its undoing -- not the protection of the rights to life, liberty, property, and the pursuit of happiness, but their obliteration...all to feed the vanity and neurotic narcissism of a single man.
"You do not 'make America great again' by rejecting the course of George Washington for that of George III. We fought a Revolution 250 years ago to end that sort of capricious tyranny. It's time we remembered that -- especially those who are loudest in claiming that their objective is restoring American greatness."~ Robert Bidinotto introducing the article 'Is Donald Trump Breaking the Law? Seven Experts Weigh In.'
Monday, 5 May 2025
Trump: "ENOUGH!"
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Not only is it the wrong way to counter the left's power grabs, it's going to give the left more power in the long term. They'll inevitably get voted back in at some point, and will then use these new precedents set by Trump to use centralised power to push for things that aren't 'a good cause'.
Quite right. The Republicans will have no reason to be surprised when the next Democrat President issues all kinds of Orders that stop and reverse the decisions of the Trump era. The precedent has now been set.
I would like to see 'executive orders' abolished under DOGE.
@Richard: Wouldn't we all. But since DOGE/Doggy was working largely on the basis of executive orders, you'd be looking for salvation from other source than that ...
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