DOJ Wants Anti-Trump Info WTF?!
John Adams, the second President of the United States, had a massive impact in developing our democratic form of government. He had a perceptive political mind and was one of those founding fathers who foresaw potential problems with all the freedoms the constitution provides. He was extremely weary of a future autocracy, and we are seeing his concerns unfold with the Trump presidency. Although Trump is the complete antithesis of Adams and represents exactly what our visionary second president feared, the two men have one thing in common- a thin skin.
John Adams did not take well to criticism, and inadvisably promoted and signed the Alien and Sedition Acts in 1798. These were a series of laws that were Adams’ reaction to the French Revolution and its impact on national security. The Alien Acts made it easier to deport foreigners as well as making it more difficult for immigrants to vote. Though most of those laws were gradually repealed after Adams left office, there are some sections still on record. The Sedition Act however was very quickly viewed as a huge overreach of presidential power. It essentially prohibited public opposition to the government. Newspaper editors were arrested and some imprisoned. It is considered to be the greatest mistake of the Adams’ presidency, quickly repealed, and why he was not reelected. Ironically it was an act interpreted as an autocratical abuse of power that undermined the reelection of a man nearly obsessed with preventing that very type of abuse.
No such irony exists with our 45th president. He has a history of unbridled avarice and is a lawless opportunist who seems to be overtly proud of it. To him the presidency represents the ultimate position for a man driven by lust for power. He has announced publicly that Article Two of the constitution gives him the right to do anything he wants and as we have seen he has few reservations about pursuing that agenda. Stand in the way of his designs and you are likely to be labeled a traitor.
Trump is on a mission to retain control of his power. He has a lot to lose if he doesn’t because of a myriad of legal problems he has with the State of New York that are constrained by the statute of limitations. He has Rudy Giuliani trying his best to resurrect some cuckoo, debunked conspiracy theory and both have exerted pressure on a foreign government to manufacture dirt on a political opponent. And for some inexplicable reason Trump has convinced his Secretary of State and, of all people, the Attorney General of the United States, to go along with and even assist in his political illegality.
People eventually decided they had had enough of John Adam’s power overreach and placed their trust in Thomas Jefferson to straighten things out. Once again this country of ours needs some straightening out. Knowing now what our current president is capable of, I am not at all confident that we can wait another year to do that.