Those condemning President Trump’s firings of resistance officials are not attacking the executive — they are attacking our democracy.
Donald Trump is not acting like a dictator. And he’s not acting like a king. He’s governing as the executive — the position to which he was elected by a majority of voters.
Yet with every decision President Trump makes, the left responds with claims that our very democracy is at risk. But, as is often the case, if you allow the ignorant to talk long enough, they shine a light on their stupidity — and their true motives. And with just a month into Trump’s second term, the left has fully revealed that their attacks are not aimed solely at the President, but also target the voters who elected him, proving President Trump is not the threat to democracy. They are.
Friday’s news that President Trump had fired the chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Charles Q. Brown, and other senior military officials, crystalized this reality. Soon after the announcement, politicians and pundits began pontificating on the supposed horror of the move.
“Dictators or wannabe kings fire general who don’t agree with their politics. This isn’t a banana republic,” Rep. Seth Moulton, D-Mass., declared on X. “What Trump and Hegseth are doing is un-American, unpatriotic. It’s definition of politicizing our military, and we should expect to see loyalty oaths (not to the Constitution) and worse coming soon.” […]
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