TRUMP VS. ROGUE JUDGES
When I fired up my computer yesterday morning, I found the following article linked-to on my MSN.com home page:
Judge blocks Trump’s election executive order, siding with Democrats who called it overreach
Here, a liberal Trump-hating judge is attempting to block President Trump's efforts to enforce election law by requiring voters to show proof of citizenship, thus ensuring that, as per the law, only US citizens are allowed to vote in federal elections.
I posted the following in the comments section of the article:
"Under the Constitution - the supreme law of the land - no person who is not a legal citizen of the United States has the right to vote in federal elections. Period. Full stop. The President - the nation's chief law enforcement officer under the Constitution - has the constitutional right and responsibility to enforce the law and ensure that non-citizens do not vote in our federal elections. Like all the other attempted usurpations of legitimate, constitutional presidential power by rogue liberal judges - stooges for the subversive Democrats who got their butts kicked in the 2024 election and thus have been rendered otherwise powerless by the people - this ruling will not stand."
I then discovered in the comments section of the same article the following earlier remarks from one Hayden Jones:
"I remember when being conservative meant having the least government interference and at the lowest levels possible. Now we have MAGA who wants to have authoritarian power from the federal government. Now we don't get anything from that authoritarian regime, because they cut services to us, but demand more power at the same time. Government that feeds only itself."
In response to Hayden Jones, I posted the following:
Hayden Jones has no clue what it means to be a conservative - a designation that includes, among other things, support for the rule of law - a core founding and existential principle of America that was trashed and trampled under the feet of the lawless, subversive, treasonous, illegitimate, America-hating Biden regime.
If the new government under Trump - who long ago correctly observed "The law either means something or it doesn't" - is now aggressively enforcing the duly constituted law of the land, does that make them "authoritarian", as Hayden Jones alleges? Does that mean they are "demanding more power"?
This is fatuous nonsense.
Trump, in his presidential office, has and is presently exercising no power that is not specifically granted him under the Constitution - which admittedly is a screaming contrast with the lawlessness of the previous illegitimate regime - which lawlessness, among many other things, threw open our borders to a vast illegal, unvetted invasion millions strong from all over the world - an invasion that in myriad ways has done and continues to do injury to the lawful citizens of our country.
The Trump Administration's determination to enforce the law makes them saviors of, rather than a threat to, a nation whose very lifeblood is the rule of law - a nation that, under illegitimate liberal Democrat rule, has perilously departed from the law and order that alone maintains and protects a civil society. Here again is my oft-repeated quote from Sir Thomas More:
"If the law be down, such a wind will blow in the land that no man can stand."
Blowing away all the fatuous Trump-hating smoke, I challenge any reader - including Hayden Jones - to name one action of the Trump Administration that has no foundation in law and actually exceeds the limits of the powers the Constitution accords to the Executive Branch - the powers of that branch centering in the person of the President himself.
What is the root of the kind of mindset we see exhibited in Mr. Hayden Jones? This is not just a superficial difference of opinion where good and reasonable people can honestly differ but a complete disconnect from reality - a repudiation of things as they really are - a grossly distorted mindset amazingly, dangerously shared by millions of our fellow citizens - as frighteningly demonstrated in the 70-plus millions who voted for the Cackling Commie Dingbat Harris last November - akin to the Roman emperor Caligula reputedly making his horse a consul.
Part of this mindset is certainly simple ignorance - ignorance of the history, fundamental constitutional structure and workings of our brilliant, divinely inspired (D&C 101:77-80) rule-of-law, division-of-powers government.
One simply cannot possess even a passing understanding of this marvelous, brilliant construction of government - a framework of liberty that divides power and responsibility into three different, independent compartments - and still make the assertions that Mr. Hayden Jones has:
That that conservatism means "the least government interference" - it does not. It means government "interference" that is strictly limited by the Constitution, as approved and amended by the people, and the rule of law that flows from it;
That MAGA want "authoritarian power" - they do not. They simply want a return to constitutional, rule-of-law order;
That a government focused on a return to the constitutional rule of law is "an authoritarian regime" - it is not. It is a government of laws - laws laid out clearly in the Constitution, the supreme law of the land, and other subordinate, duly constituted laws - not an arbitrary rule by men;
That, in the process of enforcing the existing, duly constituted law, Trump’s government "demands more power" - they do not. They do not need more power. Under the Constitution, they already have all the laws they need and the power necessary to enforce the law - as we saw so clearly when, having been in office only a few days, Trump, simply enforcing existing immigration law, shut down the illegal invasion at the border almost overnight. As he observed, what we needed was not new laws, but a new President willing to enforce the existing laws.
On this subject of ignorance, I am reminded again of the proverbial observation of the brilliant Thomas Jefferson:
"If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it imagines what never was and never will be."
On this principle, if we have forgotten and are now ignorant of who we are and where we came from as a people and nation, we will have no idea where we are going, what course we should take. No surprise, then, that those among us who seek for unlimited power - a power grab blocked by the letter and spirit of the Constitution - seek to obfuscate and discredit the marvelous, brilliant, God-driven founding of America.
Sadly, beyond simple ignorance, in everything that concerns Donald Trump there is another dynamic at work in a great many of our people - malice and animus - Trump hatred - or, as it has been termed, Trump Derangement Syndrome (TDS) - a psychosis that causes those afflicted by it to suspend rational understanding, cloud reasoned judgment, ignore facts, tolerate injustice, readily believe the most ludicrous lies and slander, and bring a dark and distorting lens down in front of their eyes and minds, turning everything Trump does into some kind of hellish, threatening machination. If Trump does it, it must be - it has to be - BAD!
"HITLER! KING! DICTATOR! TYRANT! THREAT TO DEMOCRACY! LIAR! RUSSIAN STOOGE! DISTURBER OF WORLD ORDER! CRIMINAL! RAPIST! FELLON!"
In the eyes of reasonable, fair-minded, informed people, those who hurl these vacuous ad hominem epithets and calumny at Donald Trump have no credibility. They accomplish nothing more than to provide prima facie evidence of their own intellectual, moral and spiritual corruption (see my earlier Substack post: "THE LEFT'S DECEITFUL WAR OF WORDS".
Those who have set themselves against the efforts of the Trump Administration to enforce the law, to restore constitutional law and order - for example to apprehend and deport everyone who has entered this country in violation of our laws - efforts authorized in a landslide Trump victory last November by electoral and popular majorities of our people - are in reality setting their faces against the foundational principles of the American nation. They are seditionists, traitors, subversives and insurrectionists in the most fundamental ideological and philosophical sense. If they have their way, the end result will be chaos.
Let me quote again Sir Thomas More’s concise warning:
“If the law be down, such a wind will blow in the land that no man can stand.”
By means of this mindset - this corrupt liberal/Democrat distorted view of things that should terrify every clear-thinking, reasonable, informed, freedom-loving citizen - and the influence in our society of those who are driven by it, we are collectively engaged in a slow-motion, potentially terminal passage from liberty and order into tyranny and chaos.
But don't despair just yet.
With the stunning electoral repudiation of virtually everything the Democrat left stands for last November, there is new hope on the horizon. But it remains uncertain whether Donald Trump, his team and their America First MAGA supporters - a clear majority among the people - will be able to prevail against the power-hungry, lawless, seditious, treasonous, anti-American left and their political expression, the Democrat Party - aspiring tyrants who will resort to any means necessary to achieve their ends - including, as we have seen, murder.
Blow away all the smoke, and it boils down to these choices:
Right vs. wrong, truth vs. lies, reality vs. fantasy, knowledge vs. ignorance, order vs. chaos, law vs. lawlessness, patriotism vs. treason, liberty vs. tyranny, light vs. darkness, good vs. evil, happiness vs. misery, God vs. the Godless...
Torquemada