Posted on 03/15/2016 1:23:10 PM PDT by Kaslin
The notion that Donald Trump is some new phenomenon on the political scene is sadly mistaken. Would that he were. His type has been seen before -- all over Latin America, which may explain why the United States has prospered, and even remained a republic, while much of the rest of the continent has seen dictatorships come and go.
Just abandon the foundations of republican government -- like the rule of law under an independent judiciary -- and there's little to prevent our becoming a banana republic too. Our current president toys with ruling by executive decree every time Congress refuses to do his bidding. And begins imitating those Latin American strongmen who turn out to be weak indeed. It can be a popular move -- till the people catch on. But we're told desperate times require desperate measures. Even if these times are scarcely desperate. As calmer heads like Warren Buffet keep saying.
Even the longest-running democracies aren't immune to fits of hysteria. There was a time when Venezuela, too, was a stable republic. But when its economy soured and corruption grew rampant, a caudillo appeared, promising to restore its old stability. He didn't. He only made things infinitely worse.
Ditto the Perons in Argentina, which is still struggling to recover from their misrule. It may be hard to remember now, but there was a time when Argentina was the breadbasket of the New World, attracting investment and industrious immigrants from all over the world. But it isn't now that a succession of little Mussolinis have had their way with it.
And now Donald Trump promises to perform the same disservice for this country.
The same tactics have been tried here before, too -- by Aaron Burr in the still early days of this republic, which remained one, no thanks to him. Popularity, as evinced by landslide electoral victories, also tend to turn our own leaders' heads. After his party swept the country in 1936, Franklin Roosevelt set out to pack the Supreme Court, and though he failed, it wasn't by much.
The price of republican government remains eternal vigilance -- and a sense of restraint on the part of even and especially the most popular leaders. Else, we're inviting the reign of the Donald Trumps.
More screaming drama queen ignorant hysterics attack vomit. Since the 1st 5000 of these ridiculous childish ignorant rants achieved nothing, obvious the 5001 is magically going to work./s
Why yes, if you think an article that wholly consists of screaming infantile childish insults at anyone who does not mindlessly join in your sort of emotionally hysteric ignorance then yes an “excellent article”.
Guess we better rename the site.
Oh puhleeeeeze The correct DiC hates America and everything it stands for
Trump loves America. Plus the legislature hates Trump and will be “proactive” for their RINO message
I did not say it was an excellent article — I said the post by someone I responded to, was excellent, making valid points.
This is hysterical. The stooges propagandizing for the Cheap Labor Express trying to prevent us from electing a President to retain the rule of law suggest that electing Trump would mean the opposite.
Abandoning the rule of law has been the only answer offered by the politicians for the illegal alien inundation.
These sort of hysteric triads in the “Conservative Media” is one of the reasons you are losing. This sort of infantile personal attack hyperbolic nonsense might make the Purity Choir hearts beat faster but everyone else merely point at this sort of childishly irrational temper-tantrum in print and laughs.
Thank you. Just stating the obvious.
Hope we can celebrate this evening after the results are out.
You can do much better than believing this junk. It is a waste of space. Vote Trump.
“All over Latin America...”
Just a variant of “Trump is Hitler.”
Another article making the argument: Trump promises to do things once he is elected, and Hitler promised to do things once he was elected, therefore Trump is Hitler.
No, but the next prez will have all of the executive branch precedents and powers of Obama.
But not the protection from impeachment for same. Unless it has a vagina.
Comparing Trump to Juan Peron is as stupid as comparing him to Hitler, & for the same reason.
Must be Trump’s speaking style before large enthusiastic crowds that troubles the elites, as though it’s comparable to Hitler exhorting the Nazi hordes in the Munich Sportspalast, or Peron & Evita stirring up `los descamisados’ in the streets of Buenos Aires.
Hmm...Trump ought to tease the namby-pambys by throwing off his suit coat like Peron used to do to show solidarity with the Argentine masses. Melania could do a passable Evita complete with fur coat. Now, that’ll give ‘em the heebie-jeebies!
Of course, it isn’t the crowds, or his “rhetoric.”
It’s that they believe he is sincere when he says he’s going to put an end to their racket—i.e., Mexican/Muslim invasion, handing over the wealth of the American people to foreigners and the insiders, and the war on Christianity.
Is this the Paul Greenberg who reported so well on the Clintons in Little Rock and after.
In the past month, a YUGE number of “conservatives” have come out of the closet as toadies to the Marxist-Muslim-no-borders-fiat-money-forever-one-world-government machine.
We should never let them get back their closets.
U.S. law does not operate on “precedent.”
We have a written Constitution and written statutes.
The toleration of crimes by public officials is a sign of corruption, but it doesn’t change the law one iota.
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