When Justice Ginsburg, elaborating on her previous anti-Trump remarks to the New York Times, told CNN this week that Mr. Trump “has no consistency about him. He says whatever comes into his head at the moment. He really has an ego,” she certainly got no argument from us on the merits. (A brief dissent from the justice on one point, though: She rightly protested that Mr. Trump has not released his tax returns but incorrectly chided “the press” for being “very gentle with him on that.”)The problem with all of this is that Donald Trump is not a normal candidate and this is not a normal year. If a reasonable person were to believe that Trump was horrible for the United States, don't they have an obligation to call them out? What if Ginsburg was worried about her country and her children? Would anyone be critical of a Supreme Court Justice criticizing the leaders of a young National Socialist German Worker's Party in 1930? Adolf Hitler testified that his party was not an extremist party and they would live by the democratic process if they were allowed to serve in the German Parliament. How different a world if the German Court had called out Hitler and Joseph Goebbels for their treachery?
Ginsburg is correct to criticize out of love for her country and the world. No telling how many wars Trump would start if elected. We would have to invade Mexico when then who knows what will happen when we try to renegotiate trade deals and debt with China. We could see riots within the US when poor people rebel against the slave labor tactics of the Businessman in Chief. Everything would be a deal and government would limp along with constant fights over deals. I thank Justice Ginsburg for speaking up for this tyrannical potential leader.
Max Johnson
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