If there was any remaining doubt that Republicans are ready, willing, and able to install Felon-in-Chief Donald Trump as an all-powerful dictator answerable to no one, it was burned to the ground and ceremonially stomped on by Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) during an appearance on CNN this morning.
“Inside Politics” host Manu Raju pointedly asked Jordan about a recent ruling from a federal judge on Trump’s plan to try and end birthright citizenship via executive order.
“I’m talking about, there’s a pattern where judges are saying they’re going too far on these issues,” Raju noted.
“All I know is, again, Article Two, Section One, the very first sentence, ‘The executive power shall be vested in a president,'” Jordanreplied, citing the Constitution. “I think it’s important, ‘a president of the United States of America,’ not in bureaucrats, not in career people — in the president. The guy who put his name on the ballot.”
“This is a fundamental difference we have with the left. The left thinks, ‘Oh, it’s the career experts who make the decisions,’ Jordan added. “That’s not how our country works. It’s the guy who puts his name on the ballot, gets elected by ‘We the people.’ He gets to make the decisions, or she gets to make the decisions. That’s how — we don’t want the Faucis of the world and all the people in the bureaucracy making the decisions. We want the guy who puts their name on the ballot and gets elected by the American people.”
“But, you guys are elected, too, you know, co-equal branch of the government,” Raju reminded Jordan.
We the People also means the judges and others in government who serve as invaluable checks and balances on the power of the other branches. The Founding Fathers saw what a king or dictator can do when he has unchecked power. That’s why they started a revolution to break away from England and form a nation with a new system of government where one person doesn’t have unlimited power.
If Jordan and the GOP want to live in a country where one man has all the say on every matter, they need to pack up their shit and move to Russia. And they need to take Trump with them.
