The article critiques the current president's apparent desire for authoritarian power, suggesting an ignorance of the principles laid out by America's founding fathers. It highlights a conversation where Trump questioned the idea of a government ruled by laws rather than men, reflecting a troubling disregard for constitutional principles. A key concern raised is that his approach undermines the very values for which the Revolutionary War was fought, hinting at a dangerous trajectory away from democracy and toward a more monarchic rule.
Donald Trump seems also not to understand John Adams's fundamental observation about the new nation that came into the world that same year. Just last month, an interviewer from Time magazine asked the president in the Oval Office, "Mr. President, you were showing us the new paintings you have behind us. You put all these new portraits. One of them includes John Adams. John Adams said we're a government ruled by laws, not by men. Do you agree with that?" To which the president replied: "John Adams said that? Where was the painting?"
And earlier this month, a television journalist asked Trump the simple question "Don't you need to uphold the Constitution of the United States as president?" Astonishingly, the president answered, "I don't know."
As Thomas Paine wrote in Common Sense in 1776, "For as in absolute governments the king is law, so in free countries the law ought to be king; and there ought to be no other."
So therefore men, certainly, men and women, certainly play a role in it. I wouldn't agree with it 100 percent. We are a government where men are involved in the process of law, and ideally, you're going to have honest men like me.
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