As Colorado goes, so goes Maine
Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows has removed Trump from the 2024 primary ballot – sort of:
“I do not reach this conclusion lightly. Democracy is sacred,” Bellows wrote in her 34-page decision on multiple complaints challenging the 77-year-old Trump’s eligibility for the primary ballot in Maine based on his actions leading up to and during the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the US Capitol.
“I am mindful that no Secretary of State has ever deprived a presidential candidate of ballot access based on Section Three of the Fourteenth Amendment. I am also mindful, however, that no presidential candidate has ever before engaged in insurrection,” she stated, calling the riot at the Capitol “unprecedented and tragic.”
Oh, sacred sacred democracy – unless the people might vote for someone the left doesn’t like. Then democracy must go.
Oh, and Trump not only didn’t engage in insurrection but also has never been charged with it or convicted of it. But Bellows Knows Best.
Yes, the riot at the Capitol was tragic – for those who were then deprived of liberty in political show trials, and those who were murdered by the Capitol Police. And for their families.
Why did I write that Bellows “sort of” removed Trump from the ballot? Her decision doesn’t take effect until the courts approve it – first the Maine Supreme Court and then SCOTUS if the Supreme Court takes the case (this is similar to the situation in Colorado, although in the latter state they’re just waiting for a SCOTUS ruling).
Ramaswamy and DeSantis weighed in:
“This is what an actual threat to democracy looks like,” entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy wrote on X. “The system is hellbent on taking this man out, the Constitution be damned.”
He added that he would stand by his prior pledge to “withdraw from any state’s ballot that ultimately removes Trump,” and called on his opponents to do the same.
Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said “the idea that one bureaucrat in an executive position can simply unilaterally disqualify someone from office – that turns on its head, every notion of constitutional due process that this country has always abided by for over 200 years.”
“It opens up Pandora’s Box,” he argued during an interview with Fox News. “Can you have a Republican secretary of state disqualify Biden from the ballot because he’s let in 8 million people illegally?”
DeSantis added that he doesn’t believe the Maine ruling and other challenges to Trump’s ballot access will hold up in the Supreme Court.
I agree with DeSantis’ prediction. And I think Bellows is also aware that’s the likely endpoint. I believe she’s nevertheless doing this to get attention.
I enjoyed Matt Taibbi’s reaction to this today.
https://www.racket.news/p/the-mess-in-maine?utm_source=substack&publication_id=1042&post_id=140169848&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&utm_campaign=email-share&triggerShare=true&isFreemail=false&r=pq11j
I like how the judges in Colorado and the Secretary of State In Maine have completely abandoned the concept of innocent until proven guilty. They both talk about the evidence. The same evidence that the Capitol policeman who died was beaten with a fire extinguisher?
If there was any real evidence Trump would have been on trial long before now.
I could have written this, and possibly actually did write this, at many points over the past decade (at least), but here it comes, possibly again: my thorough contempt for these people just keeps growing and growing, evidently without bound or stricture.
California’s Secretary of State has officially announced that Trump will be remaining on the ballot. Gov. Newsome has reportedly endorsed the decision.
IANAL. Since We the People™ have the right to vote for whoever we please, could a complaint be filed for deprivation of civil rights under color of law? Can she be removed for this?
It’s not enough to get this action shut down. She should be removed as a warning to others. Right now, there are no consequences for this level of virtue signaling.
I just told my Wife that this isn’t an attack just on Trump, but on ALL Republicans, and really All Voters.
Another one forgot the Harry Reid Rule.
I have a leftist friend who’s maniacally anti-Trump. Apropos his enthusiasm for the Colorado and Maine actions, I suggested, mildly, to him that to convince tens of millions of citizens that our elections are no longer legitimate might have bad consequences for all of us. I’m not sure he even understood my point. In his mind there can be no greater threat than another Trump presidency.
Occasional Commenter,
Bullseye! Accountability requires that consequences be personal…
Mac,
Count on it, under the right conditions, “friends’ like that will turn on you because their ‘friendship’ is conditional upon you not being seen as an intransigent obstacle to their ideological goals.
Neo: “I believe she’s nevertheless doing this to get attention.”
Right, and make themselves more appealing to their leftist base. Problem is quite soon mere posturing isnt going to be enough to satisfy the mob.
I read a comment somewhere else which I cannot find now. I’m not a lawyer, but the gist of the comment seemed to be that either a tributary, or main trunk of the plan with these ballot rulings is exactly to get them to the Supreme Court. The SC will overturn the states, thus further delegitimizing the SC in the eyes of the Left. From there, the struggle continues with a notch in their belt.
^^ Especially when the Supreme Court would probably decide the issue along party lines as per the new usual.
Neo – “I believe that nevertheless she is doing this to get attention”.
That’s exactly it and nothing more. While at the gym today I watched some of the MSM coverage and she was obviously enjoying her 15 minutes of national attention. She knows that this will be overturned but doesn’t care, because at the moment she’s a hero among her left wing friends. A shallow and unserious person.
I must have missed that in AP Insane Legal Loopholes class.
–Matt Taibbi linked by Kate
Oh man, I didn’t even know there was an “AP Insane Legal Loopholes” class.
Is there an online version? Or is that the “New York Times”?
In the 1860 election, the Southern states kept Lincoln off the ballot. Interesting that the Democrats are piecemeal doing the same for the 2024 election.
In Venezuela, Maduro did the same, keeping prominent opposition candidates off the Presidential ballot after he had to deal with the opposition winning two-thirds of the seats in the December 2015 legislative elections. IIRC, Maduro dissolved the legislature. After all, an oppo-dominated legislature didn’t reflect the will of the “people.” 🙂
Gringo:
I appreciate your finer-grain historical comments.
I’ve long been fascinated by the Copperhead Democrats:
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In the 1860s, the Copperheads, also known as Peace Democrats, were a faction of the Democratic Party in the Union who opposed the American Civil War and wanted an immediate peace settlement with the Confederates.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copperhead_(politics)
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I would like to know more. Even if history doesn’t repeat, it does sometimes rhyme.
I have 0 faith the Supreme Court isn’t anything but a political organization, they rule how the winds blow not any written law.
huxley, if you are interested in the Copperheads, you might consider reading Copperheads: The Rise and Fall of Lincoln’s Opponents in the North, by Jennifer Weber.
In Venezuela, Maduro did the same, keeping prominent opposition candidates off the Presidential ballot
And we’ve been treated since 1980 or so of the spectacle of ‘elections’ in Iran, in which only those blessed by the Politburo, or whatever Islam calls it, may run for office. I think Colorado and Maine and Ms. Bellows are in seriously bad company, and should reconsider.
And one more thing regarding corruption of ‘democracy’ – I’ve been a life member of the Sierra Club since 1954, and can recall that elections for its Board were once open to all candidates.
No more! Its Nominating Committee developed Politburo skills some years ago, and dourly de-ballots anyone who might lack some tiny fraction of the rectitude required for Keeping the Faith of its sacred mission. Maduro, eat your heart out.
Skip, I certainly would feel better if we had a reliable and brave chief justice.
Surely this only applies if Trump is convicted of Insurrection? But what you will see is the rule of law in action. The Supreme Court will reject this move just as so many states have.
However I have little doubt that if Biden and his supporters had lost in 2020 and behaved as Trump and his followers did on 6/1/21 then there would be many on here calling for far stronger action than a legal process.
This is the dilemma the USA now inhabits. You appear to hate and mistrust each other far more than many of your rivals or enemies.
DCL:
Incorrect.
The Democrats have been saying for many years that the Republican victories in 2000 and 2016 were bogus. See this for 2016:
Democrats and leftists rioted at Trump’s inauguration, hurt officers, and destroyed property.
Also this:
And this around the Kavanaugh nomination:
And also this:
They certainly were attempting to disrupt an “official proceeding,” but that law wasn’t weaponized against them as it was for so many of the non-violent J6 demonstrators.
And then there were the Floyd riots in DC:
And yet no Republican ever has tried to take those lawmakers who encouraged, aided, and abetted these riots (and there were plenty of them) off any ballots. No one’s calling for “stronger action than a legal process” – whatever you mean by that. However, some people on the right are saying that if the left’s ploy of taking Trump off the ballot is allowed by SCOTUS to stand, the right should take Biden off the ballot in states they control.
Also, unless SCOTUS rejects the Colorado and Maine attempts unanimously, that would say a lot about the justices (who would almost certainly be among the ones on the left) who would vote in favor of it.
I’ve been a life member of the Sierra Club since 1954
The Sierra Club is a radical left-wing organization.
Sorry Neo but that sort of makes my point. I have US friends who are Republicans and Democrats and they seem to find it easier to talk to me about politics than each other. I don’t understand how as a whole country you have become so viciously divided. The Blue think so badly of the Red and the Red loathe the Blue.
The poor old Supreme Court is going to be seen as politically biased whichever side wins. You all appear to be losing faith in your constituency and political system.
The reason I don’t like Trump is because he appears determined to make this division worse in order to get elected. I simply can’t imagine Reagan doing that. The reason I find so many in the Democrats distasteful is exactly the same.
When you have democratic elections you accept the results and move on. If there are complaints about hanging chads or mail in ballots you look to improve the system not deny the legitimacy of the result.
People in England look at US politics in real fear. Not because they favour one side, although Trump is largely seen as a very unfunny joke, but because there is a real love and admiration for the US and many of its systems. Plus we are reliant on the US for economic and military stability.
DCL,
Since you obviously live in the UK, you really can’t understand the internal situation here in the US unless you live here. In a way it’s like us here in America looking at the situation in Britain and coming to the conclusion that y’all are already 9/10s of the way to complete socialism and total government control over your lives. The actual situation is probably more complex, and I’m sure you could explain it to us better.
If you have been reading Neo’s blog for any length of time, then you should understand about how the left in the US has made it a goal to slowly take over the major institutions of the country; starting with higher education. They have essentially succeeded in this endeavor over a 40 year or so period. As a result, a growing proportion of the population has been indoctrinated away from what one would call, standard American values such as individual freedom, capitalism, meritocracy that is color/sex blind. That proportion is close to 50%.
The rest of us, see all the essential features of the country being eroded and under attack. We love what the US was, and will fight to preserve, as was once said, “the last best hope”. You also have to understand the level of hate from the left…it’s a primary motivation for them. I don’t see that from the right, though the tolerance is waning rapidly.
You are correct in one aspect: as was noted here a few days ago we are in a civil war here; a cold war for now. And, as historians such as VDH have noted, the Democrats and left are repeating much of what they did leading up to 1860. I hope to whatever Deity that the situation does not turn hot, but it is the entirely the left/Democrats fault if it does.
Victor David Hanson’s latest column amplifies physicsguy’s cogent point.
The Left — really the far Left that’s taken over the Democrat Party under Obama — are the prime movers to fascism and trashing Americanism of all kinds.
The far Left simply wants total power. The only issue that remains: “Who’s gonna stop us?” Democrats were the Party of Slave-holding, yet they’ve never completely abandoned the ideal of slave-driving tyranny. Never.
“Our razor’s edge” leaves us on the precipice. “For weeks, the American people have been relatively silent as they digested these ongoing catastrophes. But at some point, their patience will run out.
“Americans will then collectively conclude that Joe Biden has never been truthful about vast ill-gotten funds that have enriched his family; that Harvard is no longer preeminent or even prestigious; and that people who do not like us, our laws, and our values should try cheering on the work of Hamas from their own homes [instead of in public].”
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/victor-davis-hanson-exposes-our-razors-edge
The october surprise the iran contra investigation the kennedy tunney back channel to the soviets the seven special counsels including two for ed meeses
In your own country how did they react to brexit they treated it as a russian op cambridge analytica how they went after cummings how they debanked farage i could go on
People in the UK haven’t done squat about Rotherham, and are so concerned about feelings that they will arrest you if you say something “offensive” to or about a protected class anywhere (no freedom of speech or thought). The land of 1984.
Worse than glass houses DCL.
IT CONTINUES. Elon Musk notes on X the fact that there is more illegal immigration going on in the US than native births.
THIS is the Great Replacement in action. Posted reactions completes the circle.
“ Texas Gov. Greg Abbott recently wrote on X: ’I’ve never seen such hostility to the rule of law in America. Biden is destroying America.’
X user Robby Starbuck responded to Musk’s post, noting:
Robby Starbuck on X:
@robbystarbuck
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This is literally “the great replacement” in action. I’m Latino so I don’t want to hear how the great replacement is racist. It’s not. It’s political. Dems want more illegals so they can manufacture votes and cheap labor. They also want it to happen so fast that no one assimilates.
It’s why far left cities are now legalizing illegals voting and places like California let them get licenses, pass a law for automatic voter registration when you get a license and then “accidentally” register them to vote when they get their license. None of this is hard to figure out. They want to destroy the foundations of our country so they can steal total power.
10:07 AM · Dec 29, 2023
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/what-great-replacement-theory-musk-exposes-immense-growing-size-illegal-immigration
POWER TO RULE TOTALLY is the FAKE “Democrat’s” goal, and seen in the Party’s Platform to make D enclave like DC and Puerto Rico (against there will THREE times voted down) into New States to further their hammer lock.
And endorsing Packing The Supreme Court with loyal D drones to improve upon FDR’s attempted yet effectively achieved far Left Packing.
Then Ds will own and run every branch of national government.
Huxley, Insane Legal Loopholes are regularly found in the NY Times and the Washington Post. No AP class required.
DCL
Recall the multitudinous times that Democrats called Trump a Nazi. (There was also a Stern cover w Trump giving a Nazi salute) A Nazi with a Jewish son-in-law. A Nazi who moved the US embassy to Jerusalem. A Nazi who played a part in some Arab countries establishing diplomatic relations with Israel. Whaat a Nazi!!!
During the 2016 campaign, Hillary Clinton called Republicans “deplorables.” Or in 2012, Biden said to a mixed race group that Republicans were trying to put them “back in chains.”
One difference between Trump and previous Republican Presidents or Presidential candidates is that while they “nobly” did not respond to Democrat attacks on them, Trump fought back. For the most part, Trump doesn’t initiate attacks, but responds to them. (Chimpy McBush Hitler- remember that?) Like Neo and many commenters here, I was not initially a Trump supporter. When I saw that Trump was responding in kind to Democrat attacks on him, I decided I would support him.
As previous Republicans( Bush, McCain, Romney..) got attacked by Democrats, the logical conclusion is that if Trump were to follow the “polite” path that they did, the Democrat attacks would continue. Unilateral disarmament, as it were.
A question for DCL: do you know what famous phrase “As Colorado, so goes Maine,” refers to- without looking it up? I very much doubt it.
Here is a summary of Democrats playing the Nazi card on Republicans.
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2018/06/how-can-you-tell-its-over-for-liberals.php
Speaking about comparing Republicans to Hitler, do you recall German politician Herta Daubler-Gemelin back in 2002 comparing Bush to Hitler? Her father was an attorney who was high up in the German administration in Slovakia during WW2. IIRC, assistant to the head guy who got executed after 1945. Part of his administrative duties were to make sure that the trains transporting Jews to the camps were running on schedule. He spent three years in prison after WW2. Somehow I think that, given her family background, Herta Daubler Gemelin is not qualified to compare Bush to Hitler.
Jordan Rivers
The Sierra Club is a radical left-wing organization.
That’s now. In 1954 it was a lofty social club that liked to ride into the Sierras on herds of horses and camp out and enjoy the outdoors.
But who was it who said that any organization that doesn’t resist ultimately morphs into the left wing? Sierra Club is a prime example, along with the Ford Foundation et al…
I am genuinely interested in all your responses but none seem to address the concern about the way Americans seem to see each other as enemies. We have divisions here in the UK but nothing like the scale in the US. It may be our Party system makes a difference. For example many Conservatives supported Brexit but a substantial minority voted remain. While in the Labour Party a substantial group supported Brexit. It feels a lot less binary. But as someone pointed out I am not there and things are probably a great deal more complex. However someone else described it as a Civil War. Which sounds like a very bad idea for everyone.
Does anyone have a plan for bringing America together rather than just defeating, annihilating or humiliating the other side? Or are all US politicians now in one of the two teams?
DCL:
I think your lofty attitude about your own country is unwarranted, and you fail to understand many things about this one. There’s apparently a ton of anger in both countries that is mostly against the elites.
DCL,
Again, you miss what we are saying. To put it simply: the Democrat party, which even 20 or so years ago, was liberal leaning but still had a large contingent that actually cared about the state of the country. The Democrat party of today has been totally taken over by the far left. Of course, in a textbook example of projection they claim Republicans are “extremists”. However, it is truly they who are striving for complete dictatorial power and a dismantling of all traditional American institutions.
It’s not quite as extreme as Hamas vs Israel, but when one faction seeks total dominance over the other, the hippy notion of “give peace a chance” is naive. We’ve tried talking and trying to meet in the middle; it doesn’t work. We are quickly running out of options. It is a sad situation, but until the Democrats change, we move closer to a real conflict.
“ but until the Democrats change, we move closer to a real conflict.”
Wow. That is possibly the most alarming thing I have read today. If both you and the left believe the only solution is the other side changing or there will be civil war……. Well how does that work? How does it end? How many deaths?
You are right about anger against the elites in the US and UK. Our laughably corrupt ‘honours’ system has been annoying the country today. But we are a very long way from civil war. For a start the population is largely unarmed. But there simply isn’t the same level of mutual loathing and incomprehension.
Is there any possible peaceful future for the USA?
No they have to be defeated on the battlefield of ideas
“If both you and the left believe the only solution is the other side changing or there will be civil war……”
Again, you get it wrong. We would like the Democrats to kick out the far left which has taken over the party and become what they once were…yes we’d like them to change. However the left doesn’t want normal Americans or the Republican party to change, they want us destroyed. Huge difference.
Maybe the Hamas-Isreal analogy is actually apt. Hamas doesn’t want Isreal to change. They want to destroy it. Same here.
Rotherham, Thought Police, an unarmed public, stabbings so often that kitchen knives are as regulated as select fire weapons are in the US (an exaggeration).
DCL, your house needs some fixin’. So tend to it before you lecture us.
“ but until the Democrats change, we move closer to a real conflict.”
And the same applies to Hamas. When one side is irrevocably devoted to aggression and ‘winning’, no diplomat can relieve the hostility. Look how long the ‘diplomats’ billed and cooed with each other and Hamas, self-delusively thinking that their ‘diplomacy’ (and untold billions transferred for domestic purposes) would bring Hamas purring into the fold.
Churchill and Roosevelt were right – unconditional surrender is required, and even that only lasts a generation or two.
The Democrats have that attitude. The Republicans lack it.
DCL:
Quite the example is being set in London:
https://redstate.com/nick-arama/2023/12/30/shocking-video-protesters-attack-police-and-their-vans-with-long-sticks-in-london-n2168113
Rue Britannia (not misspelled)
Perfidious Albion I would say
that is the diversity Effendi Khan says they need more of
I thought Gangs of London was kind of extreme, but seriously,
@ Gringo > “do you know what famous phrase “As Colorado, so goes Maine,” refers to- without looking it up?”
I had to look it up.
Fortunately, Google helped by suggesting the quote you parodied (well done!)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/As_Maine_goes%2C_so_goes_the_nation
In fact, for such a short maxim, the ironic-complexity-level rose quite high.
(Absolutely a genuine social science statistic I just invented.)
@ DCL > “Americans seem to see each other as enemies. We have divisions here in the UK but nothing like the scale in the US. It may be our Party system makes a difference. … It feels a lot less binary.”
The two major US parties were, in the past, a lot less binary, as several people here have noted. There are studies documenting the shift.
https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2022/03/10/the-polarization-in-todays-congress-has-roots-that-go-back-decades/
CAVEAT Far be it from me to tangle with Pew’s research, but I would have to look into their methodology and definitions to see what they mean by center, liberal, and conservative, as well as exactly which roll call votes they read their positions out of.
Either they are totally ignoring the lurch to the far left since 2008, or the Democrats were even further left before that than I supposed. Of course, we could just have been smothered in the media blanket and thus ignorant of the true-left course of their votes from the beginning of the chart in 1971.
In which case, why were Republicans so CLOSE to what would be a very leftist “center” in the earlier years?
I don’t dispute that the Republicans actually moved to the Right as more conservatives were elected, and as the public cottoned onto the rot setting in from compromising with Democrat policies in a vain attempt to do whatever it was they were tryin to do.
Somewhat like Israel coddling Hamas in hopes they could soften their anti-Jewish hatred & destructiveness. Just an analogy; no offense to any Democrats or liberals on the board.
The Leaders of both parties don’t necessarily represent their constituents’ political preferences, and maybe never have.
I was musing, what the did placid reasonable (leftish ) Brits think and say about Margaret Thatcher, and her opposition to the socialist utopia they were working towards?
Elon Musk agrees with me about the vector of the political shift, in his notorious seesaw meme, and Sexton validates my caveats.
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1519735033950470144
https://hotair.com/john-s-2/2022/04/29/the-ongoing-battle-over-elon-musks-political-polarization-meme-n465910
IOW, despite the labels on their graphs, Pew was not measuring “liberal” and “conservative” ideologies against each other, but “conformers” to the Party Label on the outside (later) end vs. “mavericks” on the central (earlier) end.
Kind of exactly the reverse of what it LOOKS LIKE on the main page, which IMO is deceptive. They did NOT make the same point Sexton did, but only linked to their “How we did it” page, which does not clarify the procedure at all.
See a better explanation here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NOMINATE_(scaling_method)
The second dimension has been dropped, as being insufficiently useful.
So, yes, the “bulk” of the Democrats, by voting more in lockstep, have only moved a little to the left because they have always been more cohesive voting together for the leftist policies. The Republicans, on the other hand, are showing more cohesion than formerly, which “translates” to “more conservative” (and doesn’t necessarily mean that ideologically, as the recent Speaker fracas demonstrated).
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/studies-in-american-political-development/article/abs/substance-and-change-in-congressional-ideology-nominate-and-its-alternatives/681859D264663F5B92A3F6CD225D71ED
However, I do think the GOP as a whole (such as that may be) has moved somewhat “further right” on some issues because there are more Congresscritters voting for conservative positions together.
Sort of.
It’s complicated.
Addenda to tonight’s seminar paper:
A little bit more from John Sexton, who really went on a deep dive.
https://hotair.com/john-s-2/2022/04/29/the-ongoing-battle-over-elon-musks-political-polarization-meme-n465910
One of Sexton’s references, from Morris’s thread, also by Bump a few years previously:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/01/08/new-era-democratic-politics-one-graph/
@ AesopFan
That is a lot of interesting stuff to think about. I didn’t realise the polarisation was so long term. It makes me wonder how much is down to the electoral system although you would expect that to create greater focus on swing voters.
My feeling in the UK is parties do well when they straddle the middle. A mix of social conservatism, economic liberalism and effective running of state services and institutions. Fail on more than one of those and you won’t get elected. Pretty much the model followed here by Margaret Thatcher. It pushes parties to the centre – where Labour is heading, as the extremes lose, as Labour have repeatedly proved and the Conservatives are about to experience.
Is increased US partisanship due to the change in Media? A more partisan broadcast and print media plus social media leaving voters in their own echo chambers. That’s been suggested in the UK although I am not that convinced.
And the question remains of how do you pull a country together? Does the US want to remain a single powerful federal nation or become something else? Do states like California and Florida have anything in common? Is there any reason to stick together.
And then there is the Trump factor. Like most Brits I just don’t see the appeal and certainly don’t see him as a Conservative. But he obviously pulls in voters. We had a slightly similar character in Boris Johnson but it really didn’t take long for his act to fall apart. Plus he took a more self effacing approach as the bombastic egotistical Trump shtick just wouldn’t work here.
My fear is that Trumps route to success is to create more division, to seek to enrage not only his opponents but his supporters as well. He must be delighted with all the court room appearances as it plays right into his hands. Once he is elected, and I do think he will win as Biden is woeful, you will see some very rapid changes to the US State and Constitution – mainly in the power of the President – as well as global influence.
Good luck to all of you whatever happens but I do hope you find more ways to talk across the aisles.
” Once he is elected, and I do think he will win as Biden is woeful, you will see some very rapid changes to the US State and Constitution – mainly in the power of the President”
OMG…that statement is so funny, and so ludicrous. Obviously, you don’t live here and have witnessed over the past 3 years how the Biden administration has totally shredded the Constitution and the rule of law. Under presidential fiat, number one example is the open southern border where by the Constitution the President must uphold all the immigration laws. Instead, they have gutted all those laws. The list continues from there down to their fiats on what stoves we can buy. Constitution?? As far as the Biden administration is concerned there is no Constitution; we are far beyond what you claim Trump would do…as I said your statement is ironically laughable. Go back and look at Trump’s first term and cite for me the numerous examples of presidential power grabbing compared to the last 3 years….you can’t do it.
Oh, BTW, if you think Biden is actually in charge from your view across the pond, I hate to tell you he is nothing more than a convenient puppet for the far left cabal. Just watch his doddering dementia to get the point. Most likely this is Obama’s shadow third term.
Agree with Physicsguy @10:43 entirely. The leftist mantra that Trump governed as a dictator/fascist and will do so again is entirely counter-factual.
I do agree with DCL that Trump isn’t really a conservative, which is why I support DeSantis. What I wonder is, when I look at the UK from the US, is whether there are any genuine conservatives over there.
farage, debanked, badenuch, exed out of the leadership, I’m sure there are others, gove is reasonably so, johnson was a severe dissapointment, maybe that’s why the author of ‘head of state’ had him as transitional figure, andrew marr
in his roman a clef, the leader of the independence forces was a woman,
Miguel, you make a good point. But Badenoch didn’t make much headway in the contest for Prime Minister.
DCL,
Rest easy: there isn’t going to be any civil war. (I almost typed “silly war” there.) Yeah, if you read a lot of political blogs, they can make you think dark thoughts about the future. However, there’s a world’s worth of difference between venting on an anonymous blog and shouldering a rifle to go out to kill and be killed. The vast majority of Americans aren’t political junkies. There are millions of Red voters in Blue States, and millions of Blue voters in Red States. If you told every American to take a truth serum and then reveal his/her political opinion, she/he would be surprised to find so many friends in the opposite political camp, and so many adversaries in their own.
Thanks BJ that is a more positive picture than we usually get over here. And your faith in the common sense of the majority probably right. It is hard to see what anyone gains from civil war but very easy to see what they lose.
It is called whistling past the graveyard. We are already in civil war.
Boy, that career of lifetime grifting at the public trough really paid off for Bellows!