Posted on 10/28/2020 4:57:15 AM PDT by Kaslin
President Donald Trump is not the first president to be hated by a large segment of the American population. In more recent times, there was considerable hate for President Ronald Reagan. Even though the Democratic Speaker of the House Tip O'Neill and Reagan were polar opposites in their politics, they could be friends. Once, when Reagan confronted O'Neill about nasty things that he said about him in a newspaper, O'Neill replied, "That's just politics, after 6 o'clock we're buddies -- we're friends." Politics today has become something not seen in our history. The true tragedy is that many Americans have bought into the hate, destructiveness and plain nastiness and are seemingly ignorant or uncaring about its long-term consequences for our nation.
Democrats say that if they win the presidency, they would increase the size of the U.S. Supreme Court by appointing justices who would do their bidding -- packing the court. One wonders whether they think that a future Republican president would simply ignore what they have done. I doubt it. A future Republican president would resort to the same tactic and appoint justices that would do his bidding. The U.S. Supreme Court would become no less than a super-legislature, subject to the will of politicians.
Last June, the U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill in favor of D.C. statehood. The measure was dead on arrival at the Republican-controlled Senate. But should Joe Biden win the presidency and bring with him majorities in the House and Senate, he would make statehood for D.C. -- and Puerto Rico -- a political priority. That would give the Democrats four more seats in the U.S. Senate, therefore guaranteeing them a solid majority. But would Republicans accept that without a response? What about splitting up strong Republican states, such as Oklahoma, Kansas, Nebraska, Wyoming, Utah and Idaho. For example, create a West Oklahoma and East Oklahoma or a North Utah and South Utah. That would give the Republicans four additional senators thereby offsetting the new Democratic senators. You say, "Williams, dividing up states to get greater representation in the House of Representatives and the Senate would violate the Constitution." The fact of the matter is that making Washington, D.C., a state would violate the Constitution. Article I, Section 8, clause 17 of the U.S. Constitution provides explicitly for a national capital that would not be part of a state nor treated as a state, but rather a jurisdiction under the exclusive authority of Congress, a neutral "district" in which representatives of all the states could meet on an equal footing to conduct the nation's business.
So, far as dividing up states, Article IV of our Constitution, in part, says, "but no new State shall be formed or erected within the Jurisdiction of any other State; nor any State be formed by the Junction of two or more States, or Parts of States, without the Consent of the Legislatures of the States concerned as well as of the Congress."
By the way, in 1863, President Abraham Lincoln, who claimed that he was fighting against secession, violated the U.S. Constitution when he proclaimed the admission of West Virginia into the Union. The Virginia state legislature did not vote to support West Virginia's secession from Virginia.
The bottom-line question is whether our nation can survive the divisions that we see today. Too many people want to blame it all on Trump. How much blame can be put on Trump for the riots, looting and, as Axios estimated, the close to $2 billion in losses from property destruction? What about the murder and shooting of civilians and law enforcement officers? What about the tearing down of monuments, not only those of Confederate generals but of Abraham Lincoln, Christopher Columbus, Thomas Jefferson, George Washington and abolitionist Frederick Douglass?
Perhaps the most tragic aspect of today's division is that much of it is a byproduct of our education system where young people are taught to hate our nation's founders and founding principles. However, it is these principles, though practiced imperfectly, that have created the freest and richest nation in mankind's history. The question is if our nation can survive the widespread anti-Trump hate.
I still think Harris's "husband" is the tip of the spear here. Biden is a useful idiot, if "selected" he'll be gone within 6 months, if not sooner.
The standard procedure on FR is to only read headlines, but not the article. I can see how doing so would cause confusion here. To be fair to Williams, in many publications the person who writes the article does not write the headline.
Democrats say...young people are taught...
Name, names WeW. OK...I will...
George Soros
Bill Gates
Joe Biden
Kamala Harris
Barack Obama
Hillary Clinton
Nancy Pelosi
Chuck Schumer
AOC...
...could go on and on and on and on...
That is just WRONG and EVIL. He was saying it's ok to lie behind your back, as long as your friends to your face.
This is the root cause of why politics has become so evil.
Rather poorly written article by WW but posters are making a valid point that the attacks, ostensibly targeting Trump, are actually against us, white middle-class heterosexual Christian men. I have never felt more like I have a target on my back. Identity politics, among others, has poisoned our society. I pray now for God’s grace to protect us and grant us repose as we deal with the consequences of this yes, persecution.
I’m stealing that, it’s pithy.
Reagan was a good one for the really great jokes and anecdotes.
One of my favorite ones was the one he told about Chief of Staff James Baker.
So after he was sworn in James Baker said to him, “Mr President, I will be with you through thick”
Reagan: “What about thin?”
Baker: “Welcome to Washington “
I read the article twice. Seems to “get” a different response from different people. Which brings up another point, perhaps the author didn’t articulate his point very well.
<<President Donald Trump is not the first president to be hated by a large segment of the American population.
Over 50% approval.
And tell them that the feeling is mutual towards their sacred cows.
>>One wonders whether they think that a future Republican president would simply ignore what they have done. I doubt it. A future Republican president would resort to the same tactic and appoint justices that would do his bidding.
The purpose of packing the court is to alter the Constitution.
What makes him think that there would be “a future Republican president”?
Please do. I’ve been trying to figure out how to make a bumper sticker out of it.
Copy on shiny paper (not sure how to change size), buy sheet of magnet at craft store, cut to fit, glue on, et voila (there’s prolly some YT video for it, there’s a YT video for almost everything lol, prolly even Kama Sutra!)
Better that Creepy Joe anytime.
Was electing Obama Worth it?
The left is doing to America, chasing Trump, what Bill Murray did to the golf course in caddy shack chasing the squirrel.
Correct, Walter E. Williams is a conservative and a true patriot, but too many freepers are simply uneducated idiots or moles from the left. Getting harder to tell the difference too.
Regardless of the outcome of the election next week, a second civil war is almost inevitable. Should Trump be re-elected the Antifa and BLM Bolsheviks will riot in the streets to overthrow the government. Should Biden win, the leftist tyranny that will follow will start a revolution to restore the Constitution. The utter hatred that has been stirred up by decades of leftist indoctrination will shake the very foundations of this country.
Idiot never trumper!
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