The pundits and congresspeople can all be appalled and taken aback by Donald Trump pissing on the Constitution, but as long as that’s as far as the reaction goes, he’s just gonna keep doing it. This is what Trump lives for—confounding expectations and behaving like there are no restraints on him.
The Constitution? Meh. Just a document with rules to be circumscribed, that don’t apply to him. Besides, he can’t be bothered with actually reading it.
The whole loophole thing may give lawyers something to do, a quest to work on. But loopholes, at least in Trump’s case, serve only to embolden him and allow him to wreak havoc. It’s legality pushed to the limits of credulity, all for the purpose of finding some ass cover and tenuous permission.
There is such a thing as good order. It’s what humans need to maintain some sense of civility and stability, which doesn’t mean rules can’t evolve or change or be amended, for good reasons. It just means that flouting them a la Trump is merely a hint that he’s up to something nefarious. It only emboldens someone of weak moral fiber like himself. He’s selectively lazy, seems to enjoy working in shades of gray, always probing for ways to get away with the next thing.
And to think that he’s the President of the United States. We should all be so proud.
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