This response from Di Lothrop concerns a Letter to the Editor from former NH Supreme Court Justice, Chuck Douglas. Both are reproduced below. -Skip
To the Editor: The only irrational obsession about Donald Trump is coming from Chuck Douglas (N.H. Sunday News, Dec. 18, 2022). It’s pretty sad that Mr. Douglas can’t seem to let go of his Trump Derangement Syndrome even during this festive season of goodwill to all men. His delusional little scenario about a Peruvian dictator makes as much sense as having an ice cream cone in the middle of a New Hampshire winter, when comparing the disinformation and lies about Trump terminating the U.S. Constitution.
President Trump has no authority to “terminate” the Constitution. Mr. Douglas should know that, given his judicial background. Then again, facts tend to get in the way of clouded judgments. Trump was responding to the report of former Twitter officials, Big Tech, FBI, and their Democratic National Committee cohorts to limit the spread of posts about Hunter Biden’s laptop and collude to throw the 2020 election in favor of Biden.
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Trump’s words were taken out of context and, as usual, manipulated by the usual “news” organizations forcing their opinionated and false narratives onto the uninformed public. The disinformation was hungrily absorbed by their liberal, Trump-hating devotees.
Don’t worry, Chuck, New Hampshire Republicans are moving on from your establishmentarianism, old-boy network style of politics. Just like another dinosaur, U.S. Senate Republican Minority Leader Mitch McConnell. There is no room for the old ways anymore. McConnell and his ilk do not represent the NEW Republican Party of working-class American voters.
Change is coming.
Chuck Douglas’s LtE:
Why not President for Life Trump?
USING THE Peru governance model, former President Donald Trump on Dec. 3 called for “the termination of all rules, regulations, and articles, even those found in the Constitution,” because his fragile ego cannot admit he lost an election. The Constitution Terminator might have inspired President Pedro Castillo of Peru three days later to address his country by telling Peruvians he would dissolve its Congress and then rule by decree until a new constitution was drafted.
Luckily, Peruvians declined the honor of a dictatorship and hours later Castillo was impeached by a vote of 101 to 29 and promptly removed from office.
Donald Trump’s plan for a coup to reinstall him by terminating the U.S. Constitution is all anyone with a three-digit I.Q. needs to see that he remains morbidly fixated on the 2020 election.
How is that 7,000,000-vote loss to Joe Biden going to motivate independents to vote for election denier GOP candidates? Apparently not at all. Senate candidates Don Bolduc, Mehmet Oz, Herschel Walker, etc., each won their primary because of Trump’s backing and then blew their election because most people in the country think Biden won, not stole, the 2020 election.
Republicans in New Hampshire need to move on once and for all from our self-proclaimed “greatest President.” The 40% of the voters here and nationally who are not enrolled in either major political party have clearly put him in their rearview mirrors. In Pennsylvania 58% of independents voted against election denier Oz and in our state 54% voted for Maggie Hassan to enable her to win over Bolduc.
What is amazing is how the Trump endorsed candidates here and around the country lost when only 44% of the electorate has a favorable opinion of the Democratic party, Biden is unpopular and we have 8% inflation. The dead weight? Donald Trump’s obsession with his loss forced his endorsed candidates to ride the Great Stolen Election bandwagon in the face of no evidence and over 60 court rulings against such fraud claims.
To broaden his appeal among White supremacists, and further alienate most of the rest of the country, is the famous dinner at Mar-A-Lago last month. “I like Hitler,” Kanye West and the “Holocaust-never-happened” Nick Fuentes were actually allowed to have dinner with a presidential candidate who should know better. Last spring, at a right-wing conference, Fuentes asked the crowd to give a round of applause for Putin and his invasion of Ukraine. In December, Fuentes said the Taliban represented “ideal” government with its policies toward women, who should not be able to vote here either according to Fuentes.
Can you think of any president since Jefferson Davis who would dine with such whackos?
To cap off his broad appeal to haters and rioters Trump told a group helping to pay for the Jan. 6 rioters’ legal defense that the country “was going communist” and that if re-elected he would issue pardons and apologies to those who beat the police and threatened harm to elected officials.
No wonder he does not believe in enforcing riot laws and that he should be re-installed as president after the constitution is suspended.
If Peru is not quite Trump’s model for governance we can reach back in time to Jean-Claude Duvalier of Haiti, who at age 19 became president for life in 1957. The plus for Baby Doc Duvalier was that you can’t lose elections if you never have them.
Trump should have “terminated” the constitution when he was still president, and then declared that he was president for life. Having missed that opportunity, the Republican Party should not give him the chance again to lose and rain havoc down on the ticket of Republicans like he did to the Senate this year.
The anti-Semitic and White nationalist stench of Mar-A-Lago is not the tradition of the Party of Lincoln, nor should it become one.
We are not losing elections because of RINO’s, but because of Donald Trump. It is time to move on to new faces who believe in our U.S. Constitution.