Just ask Harvey Weinstein, or any of the other moguls, executives, and celebrities who no longer have careers. To put this in context: Try to imagine anyone like this surviving in any other segment of our society-business, entertainment, sports, the military, even politics. Given the mathematics of the Electoral College in which Alexander Hamilton invested such high hopes, Trump has a good chance of winning the presidency again. An NBC poll last month found that two-thirds of Republican voters stood behind Trump. Trump has called for the suspension of the Constitution and dined with a white supremacist, and he traffics in racist invective and conspiracy theories.Īnd yet, Trump has already been elected to the presidency once and is now poised to seize his party’s nomination for a return to office. He also played a role in fomenting the January 6 insurrection.
The twice-impeached, defeated former president has been indicted on multiple felony charges and may face more. There is, of course, a lot more evidence that suggests that Trump is not a character of preeminent virtue. Peter Wehner: Depraved, deranged, and doing real damage The other two dozen women have described various other forms of assault, abuse, and groping. Even in the era of #MeToo, the volume of charges is staggering. Jean Carroll trial wraps up, I find myself reflecting on the fact that at least 26 women have accused Donald J. I think it’s not too strong to say that he was wrong.Īs the E. 68,” “that there will be a constant probability of seeing filled by characters preeminent for ability and virtue.” He hoped that the electors would be a bulwark against men who had a talent “for low intrigue and the little arts of popularity.” “It will not be too strong to say,” Hamilton wrote in “ Federalist No. In one of his rare moments of naivete, Alexander Hamilton imagined that the Electoral College would afford “a moral certainty” that the office of the presidency would not “fall to the lot of any man, who is not in an eminent degree endowed with the requisite qualifications.”
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