The Post & Email by Joseph DeMaio 3/29/2024
The characterization of Brandon as “the slug at 1600” does not adequately describe him. A potential better term might be the “quisling slug at 1600.” Accordingly, a new, abbreviated moniker for the current occupant of the Oval Office is suggested: “the q-slug,” pronounced: “cue-slug.”
The term “quisling” derives from the surname of one Vidkun Quisling, a traitor who headed a domestic Nazi collaborationist regime in Norway during World War II. Webster’s defines the term thusly: “One who betrays a trust or an allegiance.”
When the Founders adopted the “natural born Citizen” (“nbC”) provision into Art. 2, § 1, Cl. 5 of the Constitution – the nbC “Eligibility Clause” – their intent was to ensure as much as possible that the president was a person of complete and undivided fidelity and allegiance to the United States …, and the United States alone….” The president was to be a person who also could be trusted to “faithfully execute the laws.”
That said, if ever there were proof that the nbC clause is a critical, yet also imperfect guarantee of that objective, it comes in the form of two notables in the nation’s history: Benedict Arnold, who was not an nbC, and the q-slug at 1600, who is.
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