{"id":1891,"date":"2022-08-31T13:55:02","date_gmt":"2022-08-31T13:55:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2022\/08\/31\/would-a-fascist-want-an-originalist-on-the-supreme-court\/"},"modified":"2022-08-31T13:55:02","modified_gmt":"2022-08-31T13:55:02","slug":"would-a-fascist-want-an-originalist-on-the-supreme-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2022\/08\/31\/would-a-fascist-want-an-originalist-on-the-supreme-court\/","title":{"rendered":"Would a Fascist Want an Originalist on the Supreme Court?"},"content":{"rendered":"

First posted on 4 July 2018.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Donald Trump is called many things including racist, misogynist, xenophobe, and fascist. Suppose he is a fascist. Then he is not a very good one. For he is about to nominate an originalist to the high court. A fascist, however, would not want an originalist on the court but someone who views the Constitution as a 'living' or 'open' document, one into which and out of which fascist ideas could be read.<\/span><\/p>\n

Should we conclude that Trump is  a fascist who does not understand what fascism entails?  Or should we conclude that Trump is not a fascist?<\/span><\/p>\n

Some will say that he is a proto-fascist, not one quite yet but soon to be one. No worries! If originalists dominate the court then fascism doesn't have a chance.<\/span><\/p>\n

One could go on like this. If Trump is Hitler, why did he move the U. S. embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, and why is he for Second Amendment rights?<\/span><\/p>\n

If he is the devil himself, why is he for religious liberty?<\/span><\/p>\n

If he is the personification of all evil, then why . . . .<\/span><\/p>\n

I am pretty sure the Dems' hyperbolic slanders will hurt them come November. So I warmly encourage them to keep 'em coming.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

First posted on 4 July 2018. ………………………………………. Donald Trump is called many things including racist, misogynist, xenophobe, and fascist. Suppose he is a fascist. Then he is not a very good one. For he is about to nominate an originalist to the high court. A fascist, however, would not want an originalist on the court … Continue reading “Would a Fascist Want an Originalist on the Supreme Court?”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[319,56,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fascism","category-politics","category-u-s-constitution"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1891","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1891"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1891\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}