Our founding fathers disagreed on many things when they gathered in Philadelphia in May of 1787. Slavery, proportional representation and just what sort of government they would form were all issues they confronted from May through September.
There was little disagreement on one matter. Almost all were opposed to a monarchy like the one they had just fought and won a rebellion against. For most of them, the idea of a King or Queen surrounded by a sycophant court was anathema.
Donald Trump is not trying to assemble a government. He is trying to assemble a court in the style of the English tyrant, Henry VIII. For Donald I as with Henry VIII the only real test to serve is abject loyalty. Competence and concern for the nation matters little. Donald I says men that displease him like his former military Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman, General Mark Milley should be executed. Henry VIII said many times, often capriciously, “Off with their head.”
In response to the model of an all-powerful monarch, when the Constitutional Convention adjourned on Sept. 17, 1787, the government that had been agreed upon consisted of three co-equal branches. A division of power with many checks and balances, one branch upon another.
Donald I’s nominations for his court have one thing in common. Abject loyalty to him, not to the Constitution. His latest nomination of Kash Patel as director of the FBI is simply another example of that. Patel has no credentials for the job, other than repeatedly kissing Donald’s backside.
In an interview with Donald I loyalist Steve Bannon (the populist/anarchist who always takes care to look as if he just emerged from a homeless tent) Patel laid out his plans to pursue and prosecute any judge, lawyer or journalist who dared displease his lord and master, Donald I. He would especially have in his crosshairs those who dared to dispute Donald’s thoroughly disproven claims of “election fraud” in the 2020 presidential race.
Right wing extremist Trump supporters in Lewis County and elsewhere can wave as many American flags as they want to for as long as they want to. They can quote the Constitution all they want. They repeat all the time how they know just exactly what the founding fathers meant.
Donald Trump’s attempt to assemble a court of grovelling lackeys is a punch in the mouth to the Founding Fathers. If you agree with Donald I on this and still call yourself an American, you are either an idiot or a liar.
Marty Ansley
Cinebar
