I found this article by Cato Institute, of all places, interesting as it criticizes the Republican rhetoric about the constitution as possibly…deeply misinformed.

  • bucho
    17·
    2 years ago

    I love that throughout this entire piece talking about how the Republican candidates are all either ignorant of, or antagonistic towards certain parts of the constitution, the author never mentions that 6 of them said they’d support Trump as their party’s nominee even if he was convicted of seditious acts.

    The entire party is a joke. One long, weird, unfunny joke.

      • bucho
        1·
        2 years ago

        This feels like a weird, leading question. What part of my original response prompted you to ask it? Or did you just accidentally reply to the wrong person?

          • bucho
            1·
            2 years ago

            Uh, no? I offered no opinions on that whatsoever. I simply summed up the article by saying:

            … throughout this entire piece talking about how the Republican candidates are all either ignorant of, or antagonistic towards certain parts of the constitution…

            In this sentence, I’m saying that the author of the article said that. For proof, you can read the article.

  • HipPriest@kbin.social
    4·
    2 years ago

    It’s just patriotic rhetoric to appeal to their core demographic, and I think we know from their past form upholding their own constitution is not the Republican party’s main priority. I’d hope that at least their supporters who do care about the constitution - which people died for - can smell this bs a mile off.

    But it’s true the whole thing about The President is not actually a dictator (although certain recent ones might have behaved that way). They still have to follow process and can’t make things disappear overnight.

    I’m in the UK and our right wing politicians sometimes do a similar thing with history (industrial revolution, Churchill, Empire(!), etc), although that doesn’t work so well these days because they need to be attractive a youth vote. And similarly I think Boris Jonson thought he was going to be a dictator and instead found himself beholden to parliamentary laws, even ones he’d created himself and was quite shocked about the whole thing.

    They all just want to be Putin deep down!

  • DumbDumbMcAssHat@lemmy.world
    1·
    2 years ago

    I mean, democrats love everything in the constitution or just the parts they like as well? It’s pretty rare to find someone who truly supports every aspect of the constitution. And even if they do in theory they still have their own parts that they think are more paramount and others that need to be watered down.