Last week was Constitution Week, when we are asked to reflect upon the Constitution as the “foundation of American life” and to remember our “duty to protect the Constitution.”
Oh dear. This could be tricky. You see, like pretty much everything else in a country that has entirely lost its moral compass, the Constitution has become just another obstacle for our leadership to game and to dodge rather than as the respected central document to look to for guidance and governing clarity.
My gosh just look at our leadership! Sometimes the duplicity is so transparent, it leaves one open-mouthed in dumbfounded astonishment. You see, while our chief executive and his loyal subjects at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue speak so glowingly of that revered document out of one side of their mouths, they not-so-secretly plan its destruction out of the other. From Trump’s recent musings about being unconvinced as to the sanctity of freedom of speech and his promise to sue every institution that critiques his presidency into bankruptcy, to Stephen Miller’s sinister promise to “disrupt, dismantle and destroy” the political Left, the Constitution (and indeed the rule of law) may be but a wistful memory in the months and years to come.
Ah, those were the days. But given the current and emerging anti-democratic reality, during Constitution Week we ought to consider how, in the very near future, you will be compelled to quietly recount to your children and grandchildren the stories of the great Constitutional Republic that was, but alas is no more.