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Executive Power and the Twitter Wars
Are There Any Enforceable Limits on Trump’s Destruction?
When you are elected President of the United States, your name is in the history books. The only issue is what will be written next to your name. We, the voters, have reason to elect people sensitive to the judgment of history, because that is a value more reliable than any other to keep one of the most powerful men in the world coloring within the lines.
The POTUS is only “one of” the most powerful men rather than “the” most powerful man because the Constitution hems him in on all sides. The “nuclear football” that follows him everywhere containing the launch codes to begin the end of H. sapiens as the dominant species here on the Goldilocks Planet is not his personal possession.
An obvious constitutional restraint on the power to launch nuclear hellfire (excepting when somebody else’s missiles are on the way to Hoboken or Harrisburg or Helena with the aforementioned hellfire to begin the end in the U.S.) is that only Congress is vested with the power to declare war.
The coastal elitists claim that what I’ve called an obvious constitutional restraint is already broken. In particular one of those elitists who started on the Left Coast and migrated to the Right Coast where she now lives in Massachusetts and works in New York running her mouth for…
