Donald Trump, Joe BIden, and their minions are not living up to the constitutional norms of the Founding Fathers.
For example, many people, including me, are dismayed by Trump’s trash-talking his opponents. His disparagement of recent Republican presidents and nominees, his insulting nicknames for opponents of both parties, his unfair but successful diminishment of Gov. Ron DeSantis .
The Founders were not so prim. George Washington complained about Jeffersonian “self-created societies.” Thomas Jefferson called Alexander Hamilton a “monarchist,” and Hamilton wrote ofin the character of John Adams. Much of the name-calling came in anonymous pamphlets, but everyone saw through the pseudonyms.
In fact, many reasonable members of Congress, all Democrats and some Republicans, found Trump’s conduct contrary to the president’s constitutional duty to faithfully execute the laws, and they voted to impeach. A majority, 57 of 100, senators voted for conviction, short of the two-thirds required by the framers of the Constitution for the dire penalties of removal and disqualification from office.
In the first decades of the young republic, the Founders traded accusations of foreign allegiances. That’s because they faced a world war for all but a few months between 1793 and 1815 between revolutionary France and mercantile Britain, with many Americans favoring each side. Once that conflict was settled, charges of foreign allegiance disappeared.
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