Respecting The Founding Fathers Video
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Did the founders anticipate a Donald Trump? I would say yes. As James Madison wrote in the most prominent of his contributions to the Federalist Papers, "Enlightened statesmen will not always be at the helm. Fortunately the founders built a durable system, one that often in recent years has stymied Trump. He has tried to introduce a retrogressive personal form of rule, but repeatedly has run into a Constitution built instead to foster the rule of law.
Respecting The Founding Fathers
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And it did for a remarkable period. But perhaps even constitutional miracles have a best-before date. Just an embarrassment? A disgrace. An offence against the values of James Madison and the generations of American politicians who have shared his vision of liberty.
It is worse than that. Democracy cannot survive unless all participants accept the core principle of peaceful transfer of power. Donald Trump does not accept that principle. With baseless lawsuits and executive actions, he has gone out of his way to obstruct the transition.
He has been refusing to allow Biden and Kamala Harris and their transition teams access to government departments. He is denying them the funds that incoming administrations including his, four years ago traditionally receive to pay salaries and to rent offices for transition staffs until their Jan.
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He will not provide them with secure communications and classified briefings. But not now that he has defeated Trump. More seriously, the incoming president is being shut out of the planning, already well underway, for what promises to Respectign a massive challenge within, hopefully, a few months of his taking office — the distribution of COVID vaccine to million Americans.]
Brilliant phrase
It is not logical