Posted on 03/03/2016 11:05:05 AM PST by elhombrelibre
Trump has trashed free speech, religious liberty, property rights, and limits on executive power.
Here's a question for you to puzzle over. Can you name the single most unconstitutional thing Donald Trump has proposed or endorsed so far in the 2016 presidential race?
Not an easy question to answer, is it? Do you start with Trump's efforts to suppress immigration by gutting the 14th Amendment? Or do you perhaps point to Trump's long war on the Fifth Amendment and its protections for property rights, as exemplified by Trump's embrace of boundless eminent domain powers for the government and Trump's own shameful record of seeking to personally profit when government officials seize homes and businesses and then hand the bulldozed land over to crony capitalist real estate developers?
Either of the above could serve as an answer to my opening question. But when it comes to Trump's unconstitutional agenda, there are plenty of other noxious options to choose from.
What about Trump's call for a "total and complete shutdown" of Muslims entering the United States? That stance manages to offend multiple constitutional principles in a single bound, including such bedrock concepts as religious liberty, due process, and equal protection.
Speaking of religious liberty, there is also Trump's belief that the government should have the power to close mosques. Needless to say, the First Amendment plainly forbids the government from taking the truly authoritarian step of shuttering houses of worship, be they mosques, churches, synagogues, or temples.
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Wow all the straw men. You are Satan’s slave. You can stop it at any time but the price is to swallow your own sinful pride.
There is no Satan, and there is no hell. Not the least bit worried about either one of those things. But I am worried about cultists who elevate their darling to Godhead.
Ha ha ha... you’ll find out there is both and that you have welcomed them all your life.
Right. Because opposition to The Divine Donald is a mortal sin.
Ha ha ha all the strawmen.
Blah,blah,blah. Boring.
Supporting the Divine Donald is a mortal sin.:
Libertarians think they know everything, yet understand nothing of how the real world operates.
Open borders policy has created the conditions to make the US ripe pickings for socialist demagogues. It’s also created a vacuum of power into which foreign governements and NGOs will insert themselves. We’ll have an unelected bureaucracy acting as a continental/world government to contend with on top of our own national government - just like the dumpster fire in the EU.
Because nothing screams presidential like eating a booger on national prime time TV. LOL!
Trump has been telling the mass crowds he’s for this & that. But now he’s FLEXIBLE???
Poor baby. Some adult might actually show you discipline and that bothers the little snowflake.
Lost me right there. No Reason in that statement.
He has to be able to deal with Congress. Are you naive enough to think they will pass Trump’s agenda carte blanche? Only Ofail can pull that off.
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