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Donald Trump is a jackass who has no business being president of the United States. Of the sixteen other people who sought the Republican nomination in 2016,  at least fourteen would have been a better choice, and an easy half dozen would have been a far better choice.  Republicans have a lot to answer for for the way they picked their candidate that year. He was elected only because the Democrats nominated someone who was worse – both as a candidate with plans and objectives and as a human being.

In the last week he has given the country two more example of how unfit for the job he is. In one of his tweets he outrageously suggested postponing the election because of the epidemic.  This country has never postponed and election, and a president has no power to postpone one. The country held the presidential election of 1864 during  a bloody rebellion and civil war. It held the presidential election of 1944 during a world war.  If as seems likely,  Trump meant the tweet to be taken seriously, it shows his ignorance, arrogance, power mania, and contemptuous disregard for law, limited government, and the Constitution. If he was joking, as some Republicans have hopefully or nervously suggested, it shows a buffoonish lack of dignity and understanding of the need for powerful people to be careful and thoughtful in what they say.

He has since delivered more of the same by declaring that if he does not get his way on a moratorium on or a reduction of social security taxes, he has the power to suspend the tax by decree.  It is not unfair to wonder whether he has forgotten, never learned, or simply does not care that the Constitution gives the congress the power to determine taxes.

He is at least as arrogant and power hungry as his predecessor, and less smooth in how he goes about it. Unfortunately he is also the person one should hope wins the election in November. Instead of offering moderate proposals and plans, the Democrats have adopted a dangerous and harmful leftist agenda (and with a candidate who is likely demented to boot), making it necessary for people who believe in individual rights and limited government to oppose them. That means voting for Republicans and supporting Trump’s reelection as the lesser evil, because overall his policies have been and his proposals and plans are far better than those of the Democrats. It is a hell of a note, bit it is what we’ve got. Neither an Ike, nor a  JFK, nor a Reagan, nor even  a Dole or a Humphrey will on the ballot for either party.