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Three tests that the founding fathers used to judge the fitness of a president:
"Election of a Qualified Person: As Hamilton stated [in Federalist Papers 68], the purpose was to ensure that “…the office of President will never fall to the lot of any man who is not in an eminent degree endowed with the requisite qualifications.”
Preventing Election of a Demagogue or Charlatan: The Founders did not want a person who would play on public fears and temporary passion to hold the office. Hamilton again: “Talent for low intrigue…may alone suffice to elect a man… but it will require other talents and merit to establish him in the esteem and confidence of the whole Union.”
Preventing Election of a President under Foreign Influence: The Founders feared attempts by other countries to orchestrate the election of a person under their influence. The Founders believed, as Hamilton put it, that the decentralized, layered electoral college guarded against foreign nations “…raising a creature of their own to the chief magistry” of the United States."
I'd say that Trump fails all three tests bigly. And the electoral college failed us by not refusing to elect him.
I Disagree with you. Its all in how you interpret it.
The EC was put in place to ensure the less populated states would have say in things and to prevent just exactly what happened.
In less than a week, we will have a president that got in on a technicality and only about a third of the country approves of.
Governing without the consent of the governed is a tough row to how. It isn't helping matters that Trump keeps shooting himself in foot, stopping only long enough to reload.
“Congressman John Lewis should spend more time on fixing and helping his district, which is in horrible shape and falling apart (not to…… mention crime infested) rather than falsely complaining about the election results. All talk, talk, talk – no action or results.”
You can put lipstick on a pig, and he is still a pig. (Didn't Palin say that ? ) Trump may have that name on the desk in the oval office after next Friday, but he certainly is never going to be President to at least half of America.
I have a feeling that once his true colors and motives start to surface it will be a lot more than half the country who do not like him.
Once again, Trump hit the nail on the head.
Trump is a man of action and he's already done more in the past 2 months to bring businesses back here than "O" did in 8 years.
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) Trump may have that name on the desk in the oval office after next Friday, but he certainly is never going to be President to at least half of America.
