It’s getting harder and harder to keep up with former president Trump’s egregious escapades and utterances, but given that he’s the only major declared candidate for 2024 so far, we have to.
A week after hosting antisemitic Kanye West and white-supremacist Holocaust denier Nick Fuentes at Mar-a-Lago, Trump entered into the company of would-be dictator Woodrow Wilson and progressive academics in questioning the utility of the Constitution. He did so in a post asserting that the results of the 2020 presidential election should be thrown out.
In reality, the Constitution is the “greatest political success story in modern history” and continues to sustain us. Charles C. W. Cooke is right that we ought to take Trump at his word when he pledges to be a tyrant. If President Obama or any other Democrat had suggested the “termination of all rules, regulations, and articles, even those found in the Constitution,” conservatives would be up in arms, and rightly so.
Even aside from this latest lunacy, the GOP must recognize that he’s been a drag on the party’s ticket in three consecutive election cycles. And he’ll do it again unless the party puts a stop to the madness.