Roman emperor Caligula had such contempt for the Roman senate that he appointed his horse named Incitatus to be a senator. He could be confident there would be no opposition.
President Donald Trump effectively nominated a stalking horse named Darline to the previously august US Senate. He expected confirmation for a full senate term would be automatic.
But there is a difference. In the United States there are elections. It may take a long time coming, but the system that James Madison and the other delegates wrote in Philadelphia in 1787 still holds.
Someone asked Benjamin Franklin at the end of the constitutional convention what the government was going to be. He said, “a republic, if you can keep it.”
The United States has been close to the edge several times, but each time it has been by the provisions of the Constitution that we backed away.
Thank you, James Madison, Benjamin Franklin and the others who swatted flies and mosquitoes for four months as they worked through the summer of 1787. And thank you, citizens of the United States for an independence of mind.
As President Lincoln said, “You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.”
~Dale ⚓🦅
Diplomats & Admirals • Aubrey Publishing Co. LLC. • December 1, 2022
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Excellent take, Dale!
On a personal note, I literally cried when South Carolina flipped.
Viva La Republic!