In Donald Trump’s America There is No Free Speech Without a Permit

Donald Trump doesn’t’ seem to be aware that you can’t “executive order” away the Constitution; it’s still the Constitution; it’s still in force. It, and not Donald Trump’s executive orders are the law of the land. Trump is going to require the constant reminder of courts.

Ana Navarro observed last night that his headlong charge into “Trumtatorship” leaves the rest of us little choice:

Resistance is not always so easy, however. We have already seen Kellyanne Conway demand the firing of anyone in the press who “talked smack” about Trump.

We’ve seen did some fact-checking and discovered it affected more like 90,000.

It would be nice to have an honest dictator, at least. Or one who counted better than he used punctuation.

Trump has been president for only a few days but he has already shown us how tenuous is our Constitutionally-guaranteed freedom. As Joy Reid tweeted,

Not only does Trump lack the chops, he has less respect for the Constitution than even Richard Nixon, as Andrew Coyne pointed out:

Ann Applebaum remarked, “Am about to spend the whole day at the British library reading about the Bolsheviks. Are Trump’s critics ‘Enemies of the People’ now too?” The short answer seems to be “Yes.”

And that’s the scary part. When push comes to shove, Donald Trump seems to sincerely believe he is above the law. We used to say George W. Bush wiped his backside with the Constitution but Trump doesn’t’ seem to be aware it even exists as a roll of toilet paper.

Let’s face it: the only thing worse than a dishonest Trumptator is a stupid Trumptator, and ours is both.

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