The codification of common sense

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-A republic that allows the basis of its own existence to be eliminated has clearly the wrong laws.
-Seriously!
-If someone like Trump — suspect from the outset of attempting to eliminate the rules of democracy and the very Constitution he is sworn to uphold, and having been caught in one attempt already to do just that — is allowed to run for president, then something is seriously wrong in our system of government.
-We could call it the final flaw,  since there is no use , one way or the other, of any flaw thereafter.
-Hitler came to power in exactly this way: not by a coup, but making use, with the help of a not so bright elected official (the general and later chancelor Hindenburg), of loopholes in the existing legislation.
-It is interesting that our commonsensical conclusion — that this rascal, this reviled addition to Borges’  human history of infamy, should never be allowed again to the reigns of power — requires a 57-page legal justification.

 
Would the precedent of Kain killing Abel have weighted in favor of giving Trump unlimited license to eliminate his adversaries?  Thank God our own precedents run back to post-Biblical times.
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