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General Category => Politics/Government => Topic started by: mystery-ak on December 02, 2019, 06:53:49 pm
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Obama's White House counsel says Trump is 'worst nightmare' of Founding Fathers
by John Gage
| December 02, 2019 12:04 PM
Robert Bauer, the former White House counsel for Barack Obama, called President Trump "the demagogue" that the Founding Fathers "feared" and warned about.
"The founders feared the demagogue, who figures prominently in the Federalist Papers as the politician who, possessing 'perverted ambition,' pursues relentless self-aggrandizement 'by the confusions of their country,"' Bauer wrote in a Monday column for the New York Times titled "Trump Is the Founders’ Worst Nightmare." "The last of the papers, Federalist No. 85, linked demagogy to its threat to the constitutional order — to the 'despotism' that may be expected from the 'victorious demagogue.' This 'despotism' is achieved through systematic lying to the public, vilification of the opposition and, as James Fenimore Cooper wrote in an essay on demagogues, a claimed right to disregard 'the Constitution and the laws' in pursuing what the demagogue judges to be the 'interests of the people.'"
The former White House counsel issued his warning about Trump as House Democrats are preparing to start another round of public impeachment hearings. The 67-year-old lawyer pointed to Republican defenses of the president during the impeachment hearings as an example of Trumpian demagoguery.
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I am Shocked. A Deep Stater fears for the deep state.
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I am Shocked. A Deep Stater fears for the deep state.
Somehow I think a Black Muslim Communist would be the worst nightmare the Founding Fathers could ever imagine.
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I'd say he is EXACTLY what they wanted for President. They didn't see politics as a profession.
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Says the president who called the Constitution a ‘negative charter of rights’ and promised to fundamentally transform America.
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"The Warren Court wasn't that radical. It didn't break free from the essential constraints that were placed by the founding fathers in the Constitution... I intend to succeed where they failed."
-Baraq Obama-
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Somehow I think a Black Muslim Communist would be the worst nightmare the Founding Fathers could ever imagine.
Needless to say, they never could have imagined such a thing. I still have a hard time believing it. **nononono*
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Needless to say, they never could have imagined such a thing. I still have a hard time believing it. **nononono*
iran is certainly happy about it. 100 billion times happy!
They are planning to erect a solid gold statue of Obama and Jarrett in Tehran.
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I hope alll of these esteemed academics and career governmentalists tone down their writing and speech to the level where even unwashed Trump cult followers can understand.
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Why should anyone give a flying flip what Obama's white house counsel says about anything?