Our great conservative POTUS. Despite your lies the truth has won out. donsurber.blogspot.com Trump's success is no accident
In reviewing John Yoo's book, Defender in Chief: Donald Trump’s Fight for Presidential Power, Andrew McCarthy is forced to admit that far from being the authoritarian that his liberal friends assured him Donald John Trump would be, President Trump actually is the very type of president the Founding Fathers had in mind.
And instead of owning up to being wrong, McCarthy dismisses it all as as an accident.
It is not that McCarthy was wrong. No, no, no. Donald Trump merely sucks at being an authoritarian ruler. The review -- " The Accidental Defender of the Constitution" -- just assumes that Donald Trump knew nothing about the Constitution or the Electoral College or the presidency.
The elitists always insist that Donald Trump is winging it, as if he is some really lucky SOB.
McCarthy wrote, "Decades from now, when historians assess Donald Trump’s presidency with sobriety and dispassion, the ironies are apt to stand out most. Donald Trump is the populist who lost the popular vote, owing his ascendancy to the Electoral College, an institution designed to temper popular excesses and which Trump himself, while pondering a presidential bid in 2012, rebuked as 'a disaster for democracy.' Trump has been condemned as the Constitution’s scourge by progressives for whom the Constitution is mostly a nuisance to evolve beyond, framed by white racists in a time before Wokeness. Trump is the president who upheld the rule of law by firing the FBI director. He submitted to investigation by a special counsel whom he reviled but who nevertheless cleared him. Trump was impeached anyway by Democrats who were pushed into the exercise by partisans. But Democratic partisanship proved so devoid of appeal outside the activist Left that impeachment, though it happened just a few months earlier, rated nary a mention in the Democratic National Convention.
"Is it any wonder that these four years have aged most of us tenfold?"
Not me.
I aged 4 years in the past 4 years, not 40, because I have not wasted time denying I was wrong. McCarthy's assumptions about Donald Trump conflict with the reality of President Trump, and therefore, McCarthy has declared that this was all an accident, and not a plan.
Just like winning the nomination was an accident.
Just like winning the election was an accident.
Just like delivering the best economy in 50 years was an accident.
Just like delivering peace in the Middle East was an accident.
Sitting here in my living room in Poca, West Virginia, with a cat in the corner and the wife in the kitchen mixing a cake, my guess is that President Trump -- a man who loves his country and its flag -- knew full well what the Constitution is, and what it isn't. And I am pretty sure he understood that the oath of office is to "preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States"
The oath is not to preserve, protect and defend the country, but to preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States.
And that is exactly what he is doing with every beat of his heart.
McCarthy cannot bring himself to admit that this was and is Donald John Trump's sole purpose as president. This was exactly what the billionaire playboy signed up for. He saw that a bunch of liars, thieves, and nincompoops had taken over Washington, turning ours into an overbearing and corrupt government. He ran to change that.
Instead of crediting Donald Trump for doing the right thing, McCarthy dismisses the great restraint President Trump has shown throughout this ordeal -- this struggle with the swamp critters who have ignored both the Constitution and the rule of law for decades.
McCarthy wrote, "Yoo’s thesis is that, by waging these battles, Trump has safeguarded the presidency as the Framers envisioned it when they crafted our founding law. Two things must be borne in mind about that.
"The first is that this is not Trump’s conscious objective. Even the most ardent Trump supporters acknowledge that their man, a non-lawyer, is no expert on the Constitution, let alone on the Framers’ conception of executive power. As Yoo recounts, Trump could only guess at the number of articles in the document (it is seven, not the eleven or twelve he estimated). It is not unheard of for the president to mangle fundamental principles in the stray tweet or ad-lib. The euphemism customarily attached to him is that he is 'transactional;' he does not look at politics, let alone the constitutional framework in which politics plays out, in ideological or theoretical terms."
Sez who?
Who says you have to be a lawyer to understand the Constitution?
Obama was a lawyer and a self-proclaimed expert on the Constitution -- and he spent 8 years bending, folding, spindling, and mutilating it.
I knew he would because he refused to show respect for the flag by placing his hand over his heart.
McCarthy is stuck in 2016, viewing Donald Trump as some sort of reality TV show star and self-promoter.
Only a fool would, after 4 years of success as president, still see Donald Trump that way.
McCarthy is no fool. He knows better than what he has written. He knows that the Deep State has slow-walked and otherwise tried to thwart the will of the people in electing Donald Trump. The press and the rest of the corrupt denizens of DC failed to grace him with the peaceful transition of power and presidential honeymoon he earned.
Oh well, The Donald is not the one who suffered.
McCarthy and his colleagues aged 40 years in 4, because they failed to give their hatred a rest. They didn't kick back and relax and reassess their position.
No, they went forward without a plan battling him over everything all the time. This led to the disastrous impeachment-without-a-crime. The Constitution clearly states that you need a high crime or even a misdemeanor. Democrats and that rat Mitt Romney had none.
McCarthy knows that was wrong. McCarthy knows that Obama lied and spied on The Donald. And McCarthy knows that Donald Trump has shown more restraint as president than anyone since Eisenhower.
But admitting that would lose favor in the eyes of his peers, so McCarthy pretends this is all happenstance, that President Trump is just a really, really, really lucky guy who is way over his head but keeps landing on his feet.
Oh, I get that President Trump is an elbows out fighter. He is fighting a bunch of crooks who will do anything to stop him so they can keep the Ukrainian bribes flowing to their offspring. He is impolite because he faces people who broke the law to try to stop him. Obama, Hillary, and the Democrats hired Fusion GPS to collude with the Kremlin to give them an alibi to spy on Donald Trump.
The press and the rest of rotten Washington ignore all that and attack the victim.
McCarthy ended his pretentious piece, "Donald Trump did not come to power as a crusader for the Constitution. He is self-driven and without reverence for the norms of his office. Politically, he is motivated to disrupt Washington’s established order, to revitalize American sovereignty, and to recalibrate America’s interactions with the world in a way that elevates America’s interests. He made no secret of this, and it is what his core supporters elected him to do.
"As John Yoo demonstrates in this scintillating study, that is the way liberty is vindicated in our governing system. Without the Constitution, President Trump could not have pursued his agenda. Without defending the Constitution, the Trump presidency could not have survived."
How cheeky of a man who did not see Donald Trump winning to make statements about his motives and his beliefs.
McCarthy is entitled to his opinions but not his facts -- and indeed, Donald Trump came to power as a crusader for the Constitution. Trump voters wanted someone to push the nation back to what it was supposed to be.
The Founding Fathers would cheer the man.
McCarthy has it bass-ackwards. It is not the Constitution that saved President Trump. It is President Trump who saved the Constitution.
And if McCarthy wants to shade that as self-interest on Donald Trump's part, so be it. President Trump admitted his self-interest all along: he wanted to leave his children and grandchildren with the same country he had growing up. We may not quite be there yet, but the strides made in his first term are amazing. Regulations are rolling back, taxes have fallen, the economy boomed and is booming back, judges who obey the Constitution are taking office, peace is coming to the Middle East, Red China is being held accountable, and our soldiers are coming home.
Real conservatives -- not frauds like McCarthy -- applaud the result.
Guys like McCarthy talk a good game.
Men like Donald Trump deliver. |
