Donald Trump and the Demise of Democracy
Fr. Marcel Guarnizo | July 30, 2016 “ Men cannot improve society by setting fire to it; they must seek out its old virtues, and bring them back into the light.” Russell Kirk Donald Trump’s campaign …More
Fr. Marcel Guarnizo
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July 30, 2016
“ Men cannot improve society by setting fire to it; they must seek out its old virtues, and bring them back into the light.”
Russell Kirk
Donald Trump’s campaign has become a source of intense preoccupation, for those who support, as well as for those who oppose, his candidacy for the White House. The uneasiness has ranged from the judgment that he is a racist and xenophobe to the serious possibility that he is mentally unstable and therefore not a rational actor. Many worry that he is woefully ignorant of policy and foreign affairs. Some conservatives reluctantly supporting Trump cannot shake off the feeling that they are being played by the ever-changing rhetoric of Mr. Trump.
Others have drawn parallels with the rise of Hitler to power in Germany. But the questions of how precisely Trump might severely damage democracy or cross the line into that which one could justly characterize as the rule of a dictator, remain murky.
The problem with any …More
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July 30, 2016
“ Men cannot improve society by setting fire to it; they must seek out its old virtues, and bring them back into the light.”
Russell Kirk
Donald Trump’s campaign has become a source of intense preoccupation, for those who support, as well as for those who oppose, his candidacy for the White House. The uneasiness has ranged from the judgment that he is a racist and xenophobe to the serious possibility that he is mentally unstable and therefore not a rational actor. Many worry that he is woefully ignorant of policy and foreign affairs. Some conservatives reluctantly supporting Trump cannot shake off the feeling that they are being played by the ever-changing rhetoric of Mr. Trump.
Others have drawn parallels with the rise of Hitler to power in Germany. But the questions of how precisely Trump might severely damage democracy or cross the line into that which one could justly characterize as the rule of a dictator, remain murky.
The problem with any …More
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Two weeks ago I asked Fr. Guarnizo the following question which, at that time, he did not answer:
As you know, It is the president who will make nominations to the Supreme Court and those nominations must only then be confirmed by the Senate. Therefore, it is the president who obviously is the most crucial person in the process of populating the court with whomever he/she believes most closely …More
Two weeks ago I asked Fr. Guarnizo the following question which, at that time, he did not answer:
As you know, It is the president who will make nominations to the Supreme Court and those nominations must only then be confirmed by the Senate. Therefore, it is the president who obviously is the most crucial person in the process of populating the court with whomever he/she believes most closely corresponds to their own political objectives. I don't intend to follow up or to argue about other points but simply would like you to go on the record with your answer. God bless.
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To repeat:
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I have one question. Which of the two candidates would you prefer making Supreme Court nominations (as many as 3 or 4 or perhaps even 5) knowing that those nominations would likely influence the policies of the United States for decades. . Hillary?
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Well, in his latest Town Hall article - linked above - he seems to have answered my question by writing the following:
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I can easily imagine worse evils than a liberal Supreme Court.
As you know, It is the president who will make nominations to the Supreme Court and those nominations must only then be confirmed by the Senate. Therefore, it is the president who obviously is the most crucial person in the process of populating the court with whomever he/she believes most closely corresponds to their own political objectives. I don't intend to follow up or to argue about other points but simply would like you to go on the record with your answer. God bless.
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To repeat:
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I have one question. Which of the two candidates would you prefer making Supreme Court nominations (as many as 3 or 4 or perhaps even 5) knowing that those nominations would likely influence the policies of the United States for decades. . Hillary?
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Well, in his latest Town Hall article - linked above - he seems to have answered my question by writing the following:
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I can easily imagine worse evils than a liberal Supreme Court.
