To evaluate ANY president – look to the Constitution’s Preamble:
“We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure
domestic Tranquility, provide for the common Defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure
the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution
for the United States of America.”
ALL actions by a President Trump, or ANY president, must lead to and contribute to “Union..Justice…
Tranquility..provide for the common Defence..promote the general Welfare.”
SO – in Trump’s first term, did putting three rigidly “conservative” zealot “justices” on the already ethically challenged Roberts “court” lead to decisions that, in “justice” Thomas’ words, “follow the traditions and history” of America?
For example – where in 1787-2005 American “traditions and history” is there ANY suggestion the Founding Fathers did, or would have, ever EVEN considered giving any president ‘IMMUNITY’ for any actions he/she took? Why does Article II, Section 4, contain these words: “The President, Vice President, and all civil officers of the United States. shall be removed from Office on Impeachment for, and convicted of, Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors.” ???
If. ANY. president could be impeached – then why would the Founding Fathers give him/her ANY form of “immunity”? If they thought a president should be like a king, having immunity protection from his own citizens – then there’d be no impeachment possibility, right?????
How can we have “no man is above the law” – and give any president immunity??? How can we have a “democracy”. where “our” leaders have ANY form of immunity?????
***. “Corruption comes by degrees.” [ Juvenal ]
In his first term, Trump pushed 2017 tax cuts for the rich and corporations – which resulted in a 25% national debt increase. Now Trump wants to renew this obscenely anti-democratic and budget-busting act. Somebody, please, explain to me, how does cutting taxes on the rich and KNOWINGLY increasing the national debt do ANYTHING to “..promote the general Welfare..” ????????
Trump says [November 25th] he’ll pardon people convicted of participating in the l/6/21 attack on the U.S. Capitol “within hours of his inauguration.” Somebody, please, explain to me, how this helps “..establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility..” if people can, at will, invade and trash the U.S. Capitol, injure 140 police and cause police deaths, trying to prevent Congress from doing its duty on the 2020 election. Hundreds of INSURRECTIONISTS. have been convicted by “juries of their peer” all over America. What am I missing here. – what does Donald J. Trump “know” that neither i, nor legal scholars, know of the Constitution and Founding Father intent ???????????
If Trump imposes “sweeping tariffs” on all Canadian products, Ontario Premier Doug Ford’s government [12/12/24] said it is considering restricting exports of critical minerals, restricting electricity exports to Michigan, New York, and Minnesota – adding this would make electricity unaffordable for Americans. “If you put a 25% tariff on oil from Alberta that increases every gallon of gasoline by one dollar,” Ford said.
So – how does imposing 25% tariff increases on Canada help to “..promote the general Welfare..” by a president who. repeatedly in his 2024 election campaign promised to cut inflation and reduce costs for Americans??? What does Trump “know’ about economics numerous professors and Nobel Prize winners don’t ?????????
Trump has nominated a well known vaccine skeptic to lead thenDepartment of Health and Human Services. What does RFK, Jr. “know” about vaccines General Washington didn’t know when he ordered his Revolutionary War soldiers to be vaccinated against small pox??? What does RFK, Jr. “know” about vaccines research scientist Jonas Salk didn’t when he developed the polio vaccine in 1953, saving the lives and health of millions of American children???????
How doers Trump’s pick for new FBI Director, who has vowed to fire the agency’s leadership and dramatically reshape its mission “..establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility…promote the general Welfare..” ?????? How does virtually destroying one of the world’s top law enforcement agencies accomplish this??? How does this keep the FBI an independent agency, a non-political agency ??? Does putting a Trump “loyalist” in charge of America’s top law enforcement agency make them Trump’s personal secret police [like Russia, China, Iran, etc.]??? Is America going to return to the Nixon era FBI, where the FBI Director destroys incriminating documents, and lawbreakers like a president who broke federal law taking top secret documents to his private mansion [unsecured!] go unpunished???
***. “Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty; power is ever stealing from the many to the few.” [Wendell Phillips}
As far as billionaires cutting $2 trillion from YOUR government’s budget, consider: “The plans for the Department of Government Efficiency laid out by Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy are so riddled with legal problems hat a law professor in exam season could save a lot of time by using their recent Wall Street Journal op-ed as the fact pattern: All you’d have to do would be to ask students to identify the constitutional flaws.” [Harvard law professor Noah Feldman; l2/8/24; “The Supreme Court won’t save Musk’s DOGE plans”]: “..the piece de resistance is the idea..the president can simply choose not to spend money..Congress has appropriated..This absurd notion violates the basic text of the Constitution…violates a federal statute, the Impoundment Control Act of 1974..violates Supreme Court precedent..”
A “normal,” law-abiding president wouldn’t consider this, BUT – one with “supreme court” blessed “immunity”. [ignoring ordinary people like YOU]. can try this. Especially one who wants to cut taxes on people – like Musk and Ramaswamy and himself, on billionaires who contributed to his election.
*** “WE can either have a democracy in this country or we can have great wealth concentration in the hands of a few. But we can’t have both.” [ Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis ]
Tariffs, like the post-1980 Republican tax cuts for the already obscenely rich, shift the cost of American civilization away from billionaires – to. – ordinary people like YOU; blow up the national debt [ from less than $1 trillion in 1980 to about $35 trillion in 2024] – which then can be used by the rich as an excuse for austerity. The choice should now be clear to YOU. – if America doesn’t tax ALL wealth equitably [see Adam Smith on taxing the rich proportionally!!!] [ then things like Social Security and Medicare will HAVE to be cut.
What am I “missing’ here? – this post says Trump II has the potential to destroy American democracy. – because just these here, let alone all other items in the 900-page FAR RIGHT WISH LIST: “Project 2025”. are intended to FINALIZE America’s transformation into a theocratic plutocracy. [. we are ALREADY several steps into this ]
Fellow Americans. – yxou tell me. – reading again the Constitution’s Preamble. – how much, if ANYTHING, in what Trump has already hinted at, said he’d do. – achieves. “..a more perfect Union, establish{es} Justice. insure[s] domestic Tranquility, provide[s] for the common defence [letting the Russians destroy Ukraine], promote[s] the general Welfare..” ?????
It’s ALREADY starting: Trump is WAFFLING. on his many promises to stop inflation and reduce YOUR grocery bills: “From the day I take the oath of office, we’ll rapidly drive down prices and make America affordable again.” [North Carolina speech]. NOW, after YOU elected him to do this, he says it will be “very hard” to do !!!!!!!!!!!!!
BECAUSE – reducing YOUR grocery bills will hurt the millionaires, monopolies, “margins” of Trump’s secret funders and Wall Street expectations
Brace YOURSELF – YOU’RE going to get another 4 years of this. – UNLESS YOU, YOU !!!!! raise holy hell with Republican Congress members, threaten to vote them out in 2026 – and then. DO. IT !!!
Promises made during elections by presidents with lifetime “immunity” against YOU; especially one with a history of 35,XXX known lies, do not uphold what America’s Constitution says, what our Founding Fathers intended. – NOT if America is to remain a “democracy.”
*** “The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary, self-appointed, or elective, may justly pronounced the very definition of tyranny.” [James Madison, Federalist. #47}
[Trumpism has NOW achieved Madison’s fears – controlling thr House, Senate, president, “supreme court”. – an “immune’ president, a CORRUPT “supreme court” [ perhaps THE most corrupt in American history], hundreds of COMIC BOOK “loyalist” characters in Congress, and appointed into “your” government}
With Justice For All 