If Joe Biden Wins, Say Goodbye to Constitutional Norms
November 3, 2020
Amid a year of chaos, death and despair, it is only appropriate that the most highly contested and unique presidential election caps off this otherwise garbage heap of 2020.
Some of you reading might have even heard from our heroic Twitter blue-checks that your life is on the line in this election. All this gaslighting is extremely unnecessary and dangerous, and I am here to tell you that no matter who wins in 2020, your actual life is not in danger as a result of another four years of President Donald Trump.
However, should Joe Biden and his increasingly far left team of Democrats succeed in winning not only the White House but also the Senate and House of Representatives, the rights of the political republican minority are on the line.
Before going any further, it must be addressed that even to some of the most conservative Republicans, President Trump is an extremely flawed man. He is an egotistical, rhetorically irresponsible and unique president to say the least.
His leadership at many times during his term has been decent at best. Trump’s mouth has constantly gotten in the way of an otherwise excellent Republican agenda, degrading the party, its representatives and the people who found a political home in it.
That being said, Biden and Kamala Harris pose the greatest threat to the republican government of the United States and the individual freedoms of all Americans.
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Since the dawn of the 20th century, the Democratic Party has been hellbent on denying the legitimacy of the United States Constitution. At the time, President Woodrow Wilson — like many others in his party, past, present and future — saw the Constitution as nothing more than an obstacle. In 1913, during his term as president, he criticized the checks and balances implied by the constitution, saying, “The Constitution was founded on the law of gravitation. The government was to exist and move by virtue of the efficacy of ‘checks and balances.’ The trouble with the theory is that government is not a machine, but a living thing.”
Fast forward to the present day, and it is terrifying to see that the modern Democratic Party would continue to rail on the checks and balances system of our federal government in an effort to get their way as they hinted at doing during the nomination process for Justice Amy Coney Barrett. Biden — although the moderate stance he appears to take is far from what he proclaims to be — is just as complicit in the effort to undermine America’s institutions as the far-left radicals in his party.
His selection of Harris is just one obvious example of such complicity. Together, Biden and Harris’ silent advocacy for extreme institutional changes such as ending the Senate filibuster, expanding the Supreme Court and adding states to the Union will negatively impact and subsequently infringe on the rights of the minority.
Federalist Paper No. 51 — arguably the most famous paper of them all — advocates for checks and balances to protect minority rights: “All authority [in the United States] will be derived from and dependent on the society, the society itself will be broken into so many parts … that the rights of individuals, or of the minority, will be in little danger from interested combinations of the majority.” Madison argued for a protection of the institutions of checks and balances to preserve the rights for the other 49% in the minority, but now with the present plans of the Democratic Party, the voices of the minority will be silenced in what can only be called mob rule.
A Biden-Harris administration will not save anyone; in fact, it will only stomp on those Americans who ideologically oppose them by destroying the institutions that give them a voice.
The potential Biden administration is proposing major policies that would typically require a fully representative system that adheres to institutional norms. By going along with the vision of the rest of the Democratic party all hurdles of Congress could be avoided as an extremely liberal-leaning Supreme Court could do the legislative bidding of the party in charge as they did in Roe v. Wade, National Federation of Independent Business v. Sebelius and Obergefell v. Hodges.
Democrats have wanted to bypass the representative body in Congress for generations now, beginning with ironically Republican-Progressive President Theodore Roosevelt in 1901. In his constant denials of questions regarding these issues, Biden has proven that he would be willing to carry on the legacy of a figure like Wilson and avoid the checks and balances of the Constitution.
For the independents reading this who want a fair balance of government intervention in everyday life, remember this: Joe Biden, as Vice President Mike Pence said, is nothing but a Trojan horse for a radical leftwing government. Harris is the most liberal senator in the current Congress, surpassing even the Democratic Socialist Bernie Sanders.
Harris has advocated for executive (and unconstitutional) action on gun control on numerous occasions; she endorses the Green New Deal, a policy that would cost the United States $40 trillion over the course of 10 years, and she believes in government-controlled health care that would all but abolish any private options for those who want it.
Biden will not be a hero coming in on a horse to “save the soul of America.” A Biden-Harris administration will not save anyone; in fact, it will only stomp on those Americans who ideologically oppose them by destroying the institutions that give them a voice.
Not voting for Trump is a view that I can wholeheartedly understand, but not once has he tried to destroy the institutions that give people power; he has only unintentionally strengthened them. Biden would intentionally destroy anyone who stands in his way.
Boyougly • Jun 6, 2022 at 1:12 pm
Bruh, you’re literally watching Maoist Republicans and their fascist, Marxist agenda being pushed throughout 2020 and beyond, with Puerto Rico and the Nation’s Capital being denied statehood, and you believe that you’re in the right? You’re foul for that.
Jordan • Mar 7, 2022 at 2:49 pm
Nah this is gross lmao
Richard • Nov 12, 2021 at 10:59 pm
ESMÉ BLEECKER-ADAMS Amid a year of chaos, death and despair, it is only appropriate that the most highly contested and unique presidential election caps off this otherwise garbage heap of 2020. Some of you reading might have even heard from our heroic Twitter blue-checks that your life is on the line in…
Richard • Nov 12, 2021 at 10:57 pm
This is me
Guest • Jun 11, 2021 at 8:41 am
And God is a very evil filthy scumbag altogether for letting this happen in the first place, which if we really had a real God this would had never happened to begin with.
Boyougly • Jun 6, 2022 at 1:15 pm
Please remove yourself from the internet, you filthy atheistic Republican Maoist scum. I’ve seen better logic from Bernard Sanders than from you drug-infused hippie National Socialist GOP-Felatio-givers.
The Very Truth • Jun 11, 2021 at 8:35 am
We all have to come together to fight for our country. America all the way.
LindaL Kimball • Apr 28, 2021 at 7:51 pm
In my opinion our Country is being destroyed for inside the white house I feel like our Country is becoming another Russia it scares me to thing
so many orders being signed in fist 100 days I feel like he’s a dictator I don’t like him or Harris I think they will ruin our Country
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Anonymous • Oct 17, 2021 at 9:30 am
Trump was the best President that we ever had, even though many people didn’t like him at all. And if Trump had still been President today, we wouldn’t have all these problems at all either. And that wall would had very easily been completed as well.
Fat Albert • Feb 8, 2021 at 5:11 pm
Well, it looks like they terminated my email account at Comcast ( [email protected] )! “sigh..,”’ That’s the price one pays for being too smart and knowing too much! Everybody scrambles to remove all his or her “mouth-pieces!”
Tony • Feb 8, 2021 at 3:28 pm
Well when they start to try and register guns federally, you are going to see alot more people standing up to a government that cares more about other nations than their own people. Interesting that Hitler did the same steps…….. it’s weird that the dems are saying trump supporters are radicals. But antifa is not…… america is not suppose to be a one party nation. And another thing college wasnt meant to be free…. you wanted to go YOU pay for it. You are not special because you can’t find a job. What about all the poor kids that couldnt afford it? They are just out……. it’s not my job as a tax payer to pay for college for some kid that isn’t mine……… life is hard figure it out.
j • Jan 21, 2021 at 6:24 pm
absolutely right, stacey learner. thats why the oathkeepers stormed the capitol. the hypocrisy will do the job in and of itself. you heard j. biden, he said it himself, “we owe them”. the agenda was to have them vote in the party then give them citizenship. its an agenda thats been going on forever and both parties are in on it. period. its all the same shit.
Stacey Lerner • Jan 20, 2021 at 11:55 am
All I have to say is it’s scary times. Opening the borders come on in for the next 100 days?? What ?? It’s nice to want to help the less fortunate countries and make allies and help the people who live in a less developed country , but realistically; there are American citizens who work and are still loosing there homes? We work for the money to be sent to other countries and for non citizens to come into our country so we can pay for them when we are having diff paying for our own. We get 0, sorry $600 was a joke to people who truly needed it. We pay every day and get less because we are American citizens. We are now second class citizens we seem to come last in the eyes of our government.
cutrie pie • Jan 6, 2021 at 11:09 pm
Well you can say goodbye to America it will never rise again we had the best President in Trump this nation has ever had I believe that he was Gods chosen we have taken God out of everything and when you take out the good the devil enters in, We are in the last days read the book Revelation if you do not believe it we are aborting children left and right its murder plain and simple. Destroying statues destroying the past learn from it so as not to repeat it,
Trump is for keeping America great and keeping America safe, With Biden he will let anyone and everyone in crime will spike like you have no idea.
I should not have to pay for student loans when I myself never went because I could not afford it your taxes will go up all blue collar workers will be out of work permanently small businesses will shutter permanently. Bye America its Gods judgement he has turned his back on America because we have turned out back on him
Larry Slotnick • Jan 4, 2021 at 5:46 pm
With all due respect to the article’s author Brandon Sapienza, he has obviously drunk the Trump Kool-Aid . When he has an opportunity to present himself as an even-handed arbiter of the Trump presidency, all he can come up with is: ” … President Trump is an extremely flawed man. He is an egotistical, rhetorically irresponsible and unique president to say the least.” Mr Sapienza… if that’s all you can come up with to describe the most corrupt, self-serving, lying, low-information and, frankly, embarrassing President in the 45 years of my adult life… then the remainder of your Opinion will carry little weight with any reader. But as to your over-arching claim that Biden-Harris will be working to suppress the rights of …whom ? registered republicans? Trump supporters? “Denying the legitimacy of the US Constitution” (he asserts of Joe Biden) and being a supporter of President Donald Trump are two incredibly incongruent ideas. I had to go back and double-check that you weren’t a political science major at Fordham.
Gregory Francis Summers • Dec 21, 2020 at 1:25 am
I am a Fordham alum class of “78. I had a highly successful career on Wall St. for over 40 years. My Fordham education gave me the tools to go toe to toe with best and brightest and win. I’ve known Donald Trump personally for over 17 years. I believe Brandon’s article is extremely insightful. Trump reminds me of General Patton in WWII. Both are deeply flawed geniuses. Both had the goal of winning at all costs. Both took criticism as a personal insult and hated all who opposed them. Reasoned debate was very nearly impossible. However both came along when our country needed them and devoured the challenge. Without Patton WWII would have taken much more time and many tens, or hundreds, of thousands of lives to win. Trump came to office in a time of political and economic malaise. Obama’s apology tour only dispirited our allies and emboldened our enemies. He meant well but people do not assume high office under the idea that making friends is a goal in and of itself. The welfare of their constituents is their only priority. 4 years ago Economists were telling us to brace ourselves for a future of low or no growth. Trump assumed the presidency with the goal making America great again. He reformed and remade the economy strong for everyone. Can do became industries’ mantra. (read, covid vaccine) Taxes were reformed to bring jobs back home – and low and behold – it worked. Trump confronted our enemies and put fear back in them. This discomforted some of our allies because of his belligerence. Our country is much better off today than it was 4 years ago and minorities benefitted most. Donald trump is the most non racist president of our lifetimes. I’ve seen it first hand over and over again, America is not an idea it’s a dream, with work in process. . Let’s live up to that dream of peace and prosperity at home and strength abroad.
TommyK • Nov 26, 2020 at 11:00 pm
Wow, interesting censorship; really doesn’t surprise me since Jesuits are behind Liberation Theology in Latin America with social regimes. Oh well.
TommyK • Nov 26, 2020 at 10:52 pm
I’m not a journalist and misspelled Expect; sorry
TommyK • Nov 26, 2020 at 10:49 pm
Except the negative comments from the Socialists. Trump holds more loyalty to the Constitution, despite his faults. Biden is echoing the Papal Letters of Francis and trying to impose Church and State with a spin of Liberation Theology. Keep up the Journalism. TommyK
Leo • Nov 23, 2020 at 5:09 am
I am so excited for all of these changes. The complete destruction of Republican voices and power, the abolishment of private health institutions, the suffocating gun control, it finally sounds like a decent place to live. Republicans are dangerous, their ideology as primitive as their threats. They need to be bred out of existence by the Progressive future. The day will come when the US will become a Democratoc Socialist nation and the republicans will finally received the education and medical treatment they need. We need to lift these people out of their poverty, violence, ignorance, and self-destructive nature. Otherwise we would just need to neuter their population to stop their population from growing.
I feel genuinly saddened by the things these people live through to be manipulated and used for their hard earned money and voting birthright.
patsy t francese • Nov 21, 2020 at 2:28 pm
first 3 years of trump.unemployment down stock market up immigration down 75 percent.watch this idiot biden desstoy it all
George Spatz • Nov 11, 2020 at 3:10 pm
You wanted Biden well you got him!! What kind of Pres will he be? if just this past week is any indication it will be one of no questions answered even when he allows some from a few selected outlets… His abbreviated speeches so far has yielded nothing of substance. Not even a hint as to who his chief of staff will be much less any members of his cabinet. And where are they hiding Kamala?
Fact • Mar 16, 2022 at 1:09 pm
And all the retarded people voted for him as well. Retard votes shouldn’t count at all.
Lilly • Nov 10, 2020 at 2:39 am
The view that “no matter who wins in 2020, your actual life is not in danger as a result of another four years of President Donald Trump” is so incredibly privileged. For many people in marginalized groups, politics is quite literally a life or death situation. We don’t all have the privilege of being unaffected by what’s happening in the White House.
Mike • Nov 3, 2020 at 6:59 pm
This article is basically a warmed over pile of unfounded allegations taken from the “sow fear” strategy of the Trump campaign. It is striking in it’s complete avoidance of mention of the almost uncountable crimes and offenses perpetrated by the Trump administration including but not limited to the Ukraine extortion scheme leading to impeachment, the COVID-19 disaster, campaign finance fraud, obstruction of justice for the Mueller investigation, crimes against humanity at the border, and so much more. We have heard from defectors from this White house that the second term would be a real “shock and awe” campaign against all these norms. In contrast we have the GOP talking point that Biden is a pawn for all the progressives he beat in the primary. the pPresident has taken to declaring that Biden will cancel God, Christmas, Thanksgiving, the 4th of July, weddings, greaduation, he’ll delay the virus, lock the county down, take away all your guns…. you get the idea – the unhinged ravings of a lunatic. the last point that “not once has [Trump] tried do destroy institutions” is so absurd that it doesn’t even bear a reply. The next president will spend their whole term rehabilitating the Federal government and the the competencies that Trump excised because they interfered with his personal agenda.