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Originally Posted by CorsiHockeyLeague
Trump isn't really a strict constructionist. He has no principles except that he's in favour of whatever's good for him.
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Oh, I'm not accusing Trump of being one, but rather a huge proportion of his supporters.
Or at least, they pay lip-service to being Constructionists, favour Constructionist judges, and point to the Constitution as being the be-all and end-all of Democracy and Americanism, without really understanding what a Constructionist is or even what the early debates about Constructionism entailed.
Trump is ... I don't know what Trump is yet. My feeling is he's a narcissist - like, clinically - who is going to quickly discover he has no interest in anything other than the "bully pulpit" of the Presidency and real responsibility is going to quickly devolve onto his Cabinet, Mike Pence, and Congressional Republicans in varying order of prominence depending on the issue, and then periodically Trump will swing his proverbial fists around wildly whenever some issue gets his dander up, causing no end of problems for his Party and the nation as a whole and quite possibly the world, and ultimately he'll go down as a terrible one-term President who enriched himself and his children while in office, managed to survive impeachment only due to the cynical partisanship of Congress, and left a legacy of further intrenchment of the major issues America is facing: de-facto segregation, environmental degradation, erosion of the middle class, anemic economic growth, global political instability and hyper-partisanship.