Another Slur Against Trump

This op-ed piece in The New York Times claims that Donald Trump is "the man the Founders feared":

“Is it unreasonable, then, to expect that some man possessed of the loftiest genius, coupled with ambition sufficient to push it to its utmost stretch, will at some time spring up among us?” [Abraham] Lincoln asked.

The antidote to this threat, Lincoln argued, was to cultivate a “political religion” that emphasized “reverence for the laws.” Passion was our enemy, he warned; it had to be contained. “Reason — cold, calculating, unimpassioned reason — must furnish all the materials for our future support and defense.”

You can read the rest @
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/20/opinion/campaign-stops/the-man-the-founders-feared.html

Trump is neither the loftiest genius nor does he possess the utmost ambition. But I do perceive him to be a man who like Lincoln wants to preserve the Union, this nation of ours created by the US Constitution. Lincoln was willing to start a devastating war to accomplish that, a war which killed over 600,000 of his countrymen and wounded 400,000 more.

What Trump wants to do to preserve the Union is to preserve, protect, and defend our Constitution (something the current President refuses to do), starting with these two clauses:

Article I, Section 8
4: [The Congress shall have Power] To establish an uniform Rule of Naturalization ...

Article II, Section 3
... he [the President] shall take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed ...

Is that too much to ask? Isn't that what the Presidential oath of office requires?

By the way, both Putin and Trump are being demonized for doing something similar - Putin for defending international law, and Trump for defending US law. It is those who rail against them, not Putin or Trump, who are the lawless ones who endanger our nation and the world. They are the people our Founders warned us about.