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Ron Paul See other Ron Paul Articles Title: Trump’s Achilles Heel Trump’s Achilles Heel by Hunter Wallace It is federal judges. Aside from the donor class and its manipulation of its political puppets, the other great flaw in the American political system is the power of the federal judiciary to legislate. It is these two things – federal judges throwing out laws they dislike, and oligarchs overturning elections through bribery – that have made it impossible to reform the system. Trump has surged to the front of the Republican pack because he has exposed the donor class, but the power of federal judges to nullify elections is equally problematic. This is an opening for another candidate to seize on a hot button issue and steal Trump’s populist thunder. The way to do it is simple: another candidate could vow as president that they will not enforce terrible Supreme Court decisions like Roe and Obergefell and Citizens United and Arizona v. US. Just like Andrew Jackson in Worchester v. Georgia, another presidential candidate could run against the Supreme Court and say, “John Roberts has made his decisions, now let him enforce them.” Such a candidate could run on a platform of stripping federal judges of their usurped power and restoring that power to the states. Ignore the advice of professional Republican consultants. Running against federal judges – one of the great issues of our time – would set off a populist explosion the likes of which has been seen that would instantly change the dynamic of the whole race. As I said at the secession rally in Montgomery, this is why Trump won’t be able to “Make America Great Again”: Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump says he can see both sides in the case of Kim Davis, the Kentucky clerk who has been ordered to jail for refusing to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples, but that “the Supreme Court has ruled” on the issue and “it is the law of the land.” “Well look — the decision came down from the Supreme Court … so I’m a believer in both sides of the picture,” Mr. Trump said Friday on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe.” “I would say the simple answer is let her clerks do it. Now, from what I understand, she’s not letting her clerks do it, either.” In the end, even if Trump wins the 2016 election, the federal courts and the puppets in Congress will block his agenda. They won’t allow the border wall to be built. They won’t allow legal immigration to be reduced or the 30 million illegals here to be deported. Alabama, for example, banned gay marriage and passed an anti-illegal immigration law. Federal judges threw out both. If federal judges and political puppets have the final say on every issue, then elections are meaningless and only a dictator can bring about change. Beyond that, even if Trump wins, it won’t change the fact that Americans no longer share a common culture. This will produce more inevitable gridlock in Congress. Nothing will get accomplished. Hunter Wallace is the founding editor of Occidental Dissent. Poster Comment: The Donald is also a Fascist, and the U.S. Government is a CORPORATION according to the Act of 1871. The Fascists believed that corporations could run the government better than individuals. ;) Post Comment Private Reply Ignore Thread Top • Page Up • Full Thread • Page Down • Bottom/Latest
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He shouldn't talk that way -- people will be reminded he's not actually all that conservative. This "both sides" stuff is exactly how we've gotten to where we are! I too wonder how much power Trump would have even if by some miracle he actually got elected. Surely he could at least repeal all the ugly executive orders and signing statements -- they've never been legal anyway, not the usurping autocratic ones. Conversely since Slick, W and Obozo have gotten away with legislating through them, maybe he could too.
If Trump could win by as big a landslide as FDR did in 1936 with 61 percent of the vote and winning all but 2 states, he would have power. Otherwise, he would have very little power.
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