An imperial presidency and the end of democracy [View all]

MARY L TRUMP

Undoing 248 years of democracy and its system of checks and balances which was designed to rein in a powerful executive, on Monday the Supreme Court ripped up the Constitution in the service of one man—Donald Trump. My greatest fear before the decision on presidential immunity was handed down was not that the justices would grant absolute immunity to whomever occupied the Oval Office, but that they would, as they did in Bush v. Gore, use a sledgehammer and a scalpel to benefit only Donald Trump, bestowing upon him not only heretofore unthinkable power, but also retroactively and prospectively making it impossible to hold him criminally accountable for anything.

They’ve obviously forgotten who they’re dealing with. We’re Americans. We don’t do kings.

But it completely tracks that the Court would hand down a decision this misguided and un-American. After all, they’re so out of touch with the American people, so enamored of their own unfettered power that they have devolved into an illegitimate supermajority of myopic solipsists.

But we haven’t forgotten who we are. I’ll say it again—we’re Americans. We don’t do kings.

https://marytrump.substack.com/p/who-we-choose-to-be