EDITORIAL
TRUMP WRONGLY FLIRTS
WITH ELECTION ‘DELAY’
In possibly the most alarming tweet issued in his
four-year reign, President Donald Trump suggested
last week that the Nov. 3 presidential election
should be delayed.
Of course, he cannot do this, as the Constitution does
not allow it and only Congress would have the power to
make such a disruptive call.
For 230 years, American presidential elections have
been held in the first week of November, as required
by the Constitution. These elections have taken place
against the backdrop of a civil war, global wars, depressions
and pandemics.
Furthermore, under the 20th Amendment of the
Constitution, the president’s term expires Jan. 20, 2021.
If this election heist is somehow pulled off, and there
is no elected president or vice president come Jan. 20,
2021, the presidency falls to the Speaker of the House.
Perhaps to his political arch nemesis, Nancy Pelosi.
It becomes ponderous that our president didn’t really
think this through. How uncharacteristic…
A particularly provoking point to pay attention to is
the media’s coverage of this tweet so far. Many reports
add an aside that perhaps this tweet wasn’t serious. Perhaps
it was a joke. And this reminds us of the shocking
reality that flippant, often highly irrational tweets are
our mainline to the mind of our commander in chief —
a mind that seems increasingly unstable.
It should be apparent to all that this is a shameful
ploy made by a desperate and power hungry man who is
trailing in the polls to Biden, facing the worst economic
crisis since the Great Depression, with hundreds of
thousands of deaths on his hands and therefore in need
of more time to think of an ideological strategy other
than the economy — his go-to until COVID-19 hit — to
weasel himself a win. He himself, not mail voting, is the
fraud.
And this is not the first time Trump has made dictatorial
claims. We remember his declaration of “total authority”
back in April when threatening to manhandle
state governments in their strategies for dealing with
the pandemic.
He was taken to task then, and he must be taken to
task now. Trump should quickly get used to the fact that
the Constitution’s authority over the American electoral
process is the only totalistic aspect of this debate —
lest we descend into tyranny.
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