Trump Sounds Off
A movement to subvert the Constitution — who knew?
Trump makes news the old-fashioned way: he “fabulizes” what’s going on, thereby making his outrageous claim “the news.” It’s an aspirational gambit, a ringing bell, triggering vitriolic saliva.
And then cleverly, Trump doesn’t walk the claim back; he defends his position, by re-inserting himself in the controversy, abetting the handwringing by intoning, ‘but I am just saying what we all know to be true.’ Or ‘what we are all feeling to be true.’ Or ‘I have heard some people say.’
Whatever.
If there are bodies, who knew?
Consider the latest “fable:” suspending the Constitution of the United States. The silence from Republican Party leadership is deafening, save Sen. Mitch McConnell, who slurped out, ‘not the way to go.’
Consider that among other skeptics, I started to check off the various ways the Constitution has been portentiously suspended, following the stirrings of a compliant Supreme Court, and nativist subterraneans.
Following is the list in no particular order. Note that McConnell has advocated for some of the check offs:
Remove ‘equal protection,’ thereby ‘rendering the fourteenth amendment obsolete. Check.
Amend the Constitution to allow states to overturn election results of Federal representatives including the President. Check.
Remove the possibility of a national popular referendum for electing the President. Check.
Amend Senate rules to remove the ‘nuclear option,’ eg. codify the Senate filibuster. Check.
Allow Texas to divide into 4 states. Allow Idaho and Eastern Oregon to merge creating a new state — this would yield ten additional Republican Senators and would defeat a future Democratic takeover of the Senate… even if Puerto Rico, DC and the Pacific Islands are granted statehood.
Check and check.
December 7
