The Founding Fathers are Crying

Can you imagine their reactions to some 70 million Americans voting for a mentally ill empty ignorant sociopathic mean vulgar -souless monstor/clown? - To assume the office occupied by Washington?

"The Founders and the Future of American Democracy,” the Wheaton College historian Robert Tracy McKenzie shows that the founders took a deeply conservative view of human nature."

One is put in mind of H.L. Mencken: -- “As democracy is perfected, the office represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. We move toward a lofty ideal. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart’s desire at last and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.” The founding fathers worst nightmare - An ignorant electorate unleashed from the intelligent elites. Can you imagine their reactions to some 70 million Americans voting for a mentally ill empty ignorant sociopathic mean vulgar -souless monstor/clown? - To assume the office occupied by Washington?

In classic conservative fashion, they designed the U.S. Constitution, and its attendant institutions and norms, both to constrain us and to help us be our better selves. The MAGA right has no love for those institutions and norms. It inflames ugly passions and warps reality. It is profoundly anticonservative, capable of twisting in any direction for the sake of raw power. It represents a profound break with the American conservative tradition.

And so to regard the radical left as a reason to excuse, minimize or ignore the malign movement on the right is an abrogation of conservative duty and principle. If MAGA prevails, conservatism will be gravely injured — and American democracy will be, too.”

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