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Executive power? Republicans once defended the principle of limited government. No longer. Today, Trump talks about rolling back the 14th Amendment of the Constitution ("birthright citizenship") by executive order, and a mostly compliant GOP and its servants in the right-wing media scramble to praise this Caesarism not only as defensible and but as lovely to behold.Judicial overreach? The Republican Party I joined in my youth during the Reagan years was implacably opposed to the rule of “unelected judges.†Today, Republicans are so insecure about their own ideas that they have sold out everything else conservatives once cared about — free trade, a strong foreign and defense policy, the importance of character in politics — to get two more Supreme Court justices they hope will carry on their narrow crusades (primarily against Obamacare and legalized abortion) even if they themselves are swept from power....Some Republicans, while wincing, are meekly trying to sell a passel of judges, a tax cut and some regulatory rollback as worth all of this. Others, meanwhile, have followed the president’s lead and resorted to inane but nonetheless dangerous conspiracy theories. They warn of an “invasion†of migrants, chant the mantra of “fake news,†and level the usual scummy and anti-Semitic slurs on “globalists†and the orders they’re supposedly taking from Jewish philanthropist George Soros.
Editorial/opinion by Tom Nichols.
