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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How can REASON be so IRRATIONAL?
jimmy crack corn....
Unhinged.
“suppress immigration by gutting the 14th Amendment”
Can someone explain this logic?
elhombrelibre has been starting anti-Trump threads all day. He even had one pulled. You need a new shtick pal.
Do you seriously think that posting lunatic rantings helps your cause?
You want to elect one of two constitutionally inelligible candidates instead?
Congratulations, you found an anti-Trump piece. Here’s your (stale) cookie.
Root drinking the #NeverTrump Koolaid.
Maybe he’ll move to Canada?
Trump is 100% US NBC and he has the entire GOPe so mad at him the dragged Romney out from under his rock. He has those things going for him.
I think we all should ping Jim Rob about the OP, he had a warning for zealots who are spamming FR with biased and useless partisan articles. Does nothing to add to the discourse, but is blatant flame bait. Some are just angry cranks who get off on aggravating others.
Everyone hates Trump except PATRIOTS.
Everyone hates Trump except PATRIOTS.
Ok.
Where are all the essays analyzing why so many of us prefer an “Enemy of the Constitution” (or Hitler or Mussolini or whoever) to other options?
The first step in “fixing Trump” is to figure that out and fix it. Plenty of us commoners are willing to provide the answer but it doesn’t seem like any of the “leaders” are interested in listening.
I don’t think Trump knows enough about the Constitution to be an enemy of it or a supporter.
Trump is a RAM!
Reason is irrational and screaming!
I am a Cruz supporter until and unless, someone else wins the GOP nomination at the convention later this year.
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