12 AUGUST 6, 2020 RIDGEWOOD TIMES WWW.QNS.COM
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
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president didn’t really think this
this is a shameful ploy made by a
through. How uncharacteristic…
desperate and power hungry man
A particularly provoking point
who is trailing in the polls to Biden,
to pay attention to is the media’s
facing the worst economic crisis
coverage of this tweet so far. Many
since the Great Depression, with
reports add an aside that perhaps
hundreds of thousands of deaths
this tweet wasn’t serious. Perhaps
on his hands and therefore in need
it was a joke. And this reminds us
of more time to think of an ideological
of the shocking reality that flippant,
strategy other than the economy
often highly irrational tweets are
— his go-to until COVID-19 hit — to
our mainline to the mind of our
weasel himself a win.
commander in chief — a mind that
He himself, not mail voting, is the
seems increasingly unstable.
fraud.
It should be apparent to all that
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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