Donald Trump won a mandate on Nov. 5, writes Catholic University professor emeritus John Kenneth White. Now he seems determined to overstep it. |
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Voters hired Trump to do three things, says White: “put more money into their pockets; lower prices for gas, groceries and rent and restore order at the southern border.” They don’t want the president-elect to gut the Justice Dept., abolish the FBI and Dept. of Education or pardon the Jan. 6 rioters.
But that’s exactly what Trump and some of his appointees want to do.
White cites Bill Clinton and George W. Bush as examples of recent presidents who overreached their mandates and says there is something about the presidency “that causes its victors to overreach beyond what the voters want.”
Trump will be no different, he concludes. “Having won a hard-fought victory, Trump is quickly squandering it.”
Read the op-ed at TheHill.com. |
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