Commentary
Most of us view a dictatorship as an autocratic form of government in which one person possesses absolute power without constitutional approval.
Democrats claim former President Trump acted dictatorially while Republicans view President Biden similarly. Biden unsuccessfully attempted to cover his decisions by including the word “democracy” in his statements.
Let’s cut the crap on a U.S. president being a dictator. The framers of our
Constitution made it invulnerable to illegal or unconstitutional acts, despite the warnings by Liz Cheney and other kooks who say that dismissing the risk of a second Trump term do our country a grave disservice.
If Biden sees China’s dictator President Xi Jinping “as a guy who runs a country … based on a form of government totally different from ours,” then you recognize his calling Trump a dictator is just political season rhetoric.
The nonsensical chatter of a second Trump presidency becoming a dictatorship threw the leftist media in a tizzy.
Appearing on a Sean Hannity town hall from Iowa, Trump remarked that he would be a dictator on day one for the purpose of “closing the border” and “drilling, drilling, drilling. After that, I’m not a dictator.”
Who’s the Dictator?
On day one of the Biden administration effectively opened the border by halting construction of the U.S.-Mexico wall and sent his bill to modernize our immigration to congress, while revoking Trump’s executive order that massively expanded immigration official’s interior enforcement work.
And on day one, Biden revoked Trump’s presidential permit for the Keystone XL pipeline, the beginning of his effort designed to put the oil and gas industry out of business and cut the use of fossil fuels.
So, how does Trump’s day-one statement on the border and drilling make him a dictator, even though he jokingly referred to it as such?
“I have this strange notion, we are a democracy … if you can’t get the votes … you can’t legislate by executive order unless you’re a dictator,” Biden told ABC News’ George Stephanopoulos, who spoke of the dangers of governing like a dictator just weeks before the 2020 election.
A look at Biden’s first 100 days is even more revealing of his autocratic bent.
“No recent president has reversed a predecessor’s orders as often as Biden has reversed Trump,” wrote the The American Presidency Project on April 30, 2021.
Biden explicitly rejected 76 prior orders in 25 out of 106 issued documents, the Project noted with Biden Executive Order 1401 exclusively dedicated to rejecting seven actions of President Trump.
Interestingly, of the 42 first 100-day orders issue by Biden, 21 revoked orders of Trump. In Trump’s first 100 days, he issued 33 orders and revoked just eight of former President Obama’s.
“Ease up on the Executive Actions, Joe” read the headline over a New York Times editorial board opinion piece calling on the president to pump the brakes on governing exclusively by executive fiat.
“Despite his constant prattle about saving our democracy, Biden seems to think he’s running an authoritarian police state.” – The Washinton Examiner, 11/24/22
After that appeared in print, then White House press secretary Jen Psaki said,
“(Biden) is going to use the levers that every president in history has used: executive actions.”
But it’s abuse of power and a dictatorship when its President Trump.
Looking back, I found The Washington Post’s exclusive first look at the Biden Oval Office humorous. Annie Linskey wrote of the portraits and busts that adorned the room, all of which she noted covered all of the minorities and special interest groups.
I found it particularly revealing that the Post, who repeatedly wrote of Trump’s abuse of power, made special note of Biden signing executive orders “beneath a prominent Oval Office portrait of Franklin D Roosevelt, a president known for his use of executive power.”
You be the Judge …
… but to me, it seems as though Biden is calling the kettle black.
May God continue to bless the United States of America.
