Democrats have sown the wind and could reap the windbag — or a Texas tornado
Celebrity is a funny thing: Donald Trump, reptilian cretin and current Republican presidential front-runner, has been roundly denounced as a Nazi thug for suggesting that the United States should curtail Muslim immigration until such a time as the efforts of the Islamic State and its allies to infiltrate refugee populations and other sources of immigration have been more fully understood.
All the best people got righteous ants in their pants and declared that the rise of Trump announces the birth of fascism in the United States, and wondered aloud what would become of us if such a man were to be elected president and replace Barack Obama. The same Barack Obama who has, let us never forget, ordered the assassination of American citizens.
The habitual answer of the Obama administration to protests about its abuse of executive power and its Gaullist-Francoite understanding of the presidency is, “We asked our lawyers, and our lawyers said it was hunky-dory.” The president, despite his academic pedigree, doesn’t seem to be much of a lawyer.
You know who is a hell of a lawyer? Ted Cruz, who has been arguing in front of the Supreme Court — and winning — since approximately kindergarten. One of the pro-Cruz groups argues (with no coordination with the campaign, I’m sure; the lawyers tell us that sort of thing is naughty, naughty, naughty!) that one of the best reasons to back Cruz is that he is a proven winner, that he has achieved real results in front of the Supreme Court in areas such as Second Amendment rights and national sovereignty.
That is an excellent point, and a persuasive one.
But that was R. Ted Cruz, solicitor general of the state of Texas, who was, let’s admit, a bit of a fuddy-duddy in that he apparently believed that you have to go through various legal and political processes to get what you want out of government rather than just issuing presidential fiats to that end. What might a President Ted Cruz do with the godlike executive powers that Barack Obama is bequeathing to his successor?
President Obama’s operating principle is: If Congress won’t do what I want, I’ll do it on my own through executive orders, Constitution be damned. The president’s approach here has to be understood in the wider context of the Democratic party’s newfound commitment to totalitarianism:
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