See if you can spot the common theme in these Trump quotes.
On Illegal Immigration - “Our politicians are stupid, And the Mexican government is much smarter, much sharper, much more cunning. And they send the bad ones over because they don’t want to pay for them. Why should they, when the stupid leaders of the United States will pay for them?” (Source)
On Obamacare - “It’s been incompetent from day one. The way it got passed was horrible…It’s not bureaucracy. It's gross incompetence.” (Source)
On the State Department’s Claim of Bringing Peace to Syria -“It is the level of stupidity that is incredible. I’m telling you, I used to use the word incompetent. Now I just call them stupid.” (Source)
Sorry Mr. Trump, but you’re wrong. Stupidity is not causing the woes of the American people.
Washington didn't fail to stop illegal immigration because they’re idiots who can’t understand complexities of building a wall. The politicians have intentionally chosen not to address illegal immigration because Mexican immigrants take farming jobs at low wages that save Republican farmers a lot of money and because Mexican immigrants have children who vote overwhelmingly for Democrat candidates. Both sides benefit from allowing the crisis to continue.
Obamacare is not failing because the designers are incompetent. It is failing because it was designed to strain the healthcare system even further, collapse private healthcare and pave the way for universal healthcare.
The State Department didn’t claim they brought peace to Syria because they are dumb enough to believe their own nonsense. They claimed to bring peace to Syria because they wanted good press, and they knew there would be no real consequences for lying.
I will gladly condemn leftist policies as destructive, dangerous, oppressive, foolhardy, manipulative, detrimental, and corrosive, and perhaps after exhausting my lexicon I might even call their ideas stupid, but the people who implement these policies are not, as a rule, dumb. I don’t make this distinction because of political correctness but because anyone who intends to turn the tide in Washington must understand that the true nature of the problem in D.C. is corrupt ideology and corrupt ethics not a corrupt IQ.
If I brought together experts in a multitude of fields, provided them a schematic for a machine, and gave them a massive budget, it would not matter how smart, competent, well-managed, well-organized, dedicated, determined, noble or respected they were, their project would inevitably fail if the designs were flawed.
The United States has been following a flawed design for more than a century. Every time a new crisis faced the nation, the political elites decided they needed just a little more power in Washington to get things done for the good of the citizenry. Of course, there was that pesky Constitution which kept the government from doing everything politicians pleased, but the new radical philosophy of Progressivism offered a way to defeat the Constitution. Progressivism taught that the Constitution was outdated, and when it stood between politicians and their desires, it could simply be reinterpreted to mean whatever the politicians found convenient. This philosophy took root in the political class, and soon legislative, judicial and executive branches all ignored the Constitution to make way for bold new government initiatives that consolidated federal power. This power corrupted those who wielded it, and our elected leaders became obsessed with furthering themselves rather than serving the people.
It doesn’t matter if the man in the White House has the intelligence of Kanye West or Stephen Hawking. As long as the Progressive design is being followed, the United States will continue to deteriorate. We need a President who understands that progressivism is the disease and the Constitution is the cure.
With this in mind, does Donald Trump understand the Constitution?
No. No he does not.
If there’s an exchange where Trump has demonstrated any depth of understanding of the supreme law of the land, I haven’t seen it. It’s difficult to find any time he’s ever referenced it except to vaguely and incorrectly accuse people of lacking American citizenship. He’s certainly never spoken passionately on the subject or praised the value of limiting executive power, and he rarely bothers so much as to pay the Constitution lip service.
Trump’s policies affirm his lack of concern on Constitutional matters. Trump just says whatever he wants to do without paying heed to what he’s constitutionally allowed to do. At various points, Trump has supported universal healthcare, abusive eminent domain practices, the Patriot Act, gun bans, bailouts, nationalization of the banking system and a host of other programs that would cause our Founding Fathers to run screaming to the nearest dock and vent their frustrations on some unlucky shipments of tea.
Trump has had some very bad moments that further indicate Constitutional apathy. Trump called for shutting down parts of the internet to battle ISIS and he mocked those who brought up concerns over freedom of speech before he eventually clarified that he only wanted to stop the internet in foreign, hostile nations. Trump also advocated a mandatory registration system for Muslims. The fact that he seems to have been referring to new immigrants mitigates Constitutional concerns a smidge, but it’s not hard to imagine the bad places forced religious registration could go. When he later decided all Muslims should be banned, Trump defended his position by saying his proposal was no different than one of FDR’s worst Presidential and least Constitutional acts, the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II.
We don’t need a smarter guy in Washington who promises to fix our problems for us. We need an honest and honorable guy in Washington who will restore the Constitution and give the power back to individuals so we can begin to fix problems for ourselves.
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