We have to always remember that he was elected and that's how it works in our system, but we do need checks and balances and the congress has not been a very good other branch of government. Certainly unworthy of Jefferson's republic, but Donald Trump is Donald Trump. Why would we want to pick fights with them and so the world is going to move forward and great nations move forward and we are tripping up over a bunch of things that I think are unworthy of the most important nation on earth. We happen to be surrounded by two world class neighbors. Every other country in the world is surrounded by more difficult neighbors. Why would you want to create unnecessary tension with the two parts of your situation that you most want to be stable? He said, no other country in the world has this. Canada and Mexico - I heard John Meacham talking about this over the weekend on a talk show and he said, you want your two neighbors to be your pals and to be reliable and to be in harmony with them. The European Union is disillusioned with the United States. NATO is losing faith in America and starting to say, well, we're going to have to do this by ourselves. I mean, I think that's fair, but we need to focus on what America really will come to represent in the 21st century. We're not addressing those questions because we keep getting tripped up and he's tripping us up. I just hope that we don't have to go through this because it - my larger point is that great nations address great issues: education, immigration, industrial policy, the coming of robotics and AI, our place in the world. I believe that the Mueller probe is going to lead to a lot more indictments and it's going to lead the whole chaos in a constitutional crisis. It looks to me like his administration is coming apart at the seams. Remember John Adams said to Jefferson, checks and balances, Mr Jefferson, checks and balances.ĬSJ: 00:50 That's his voice, but my point is that, so my evolution and thinking is that - all right now, Trump's had well more than a year. What we really need is accountability, oversight, transparency, supervision and checks and balances. How did you put that? Do you remember?ĬSJ: 00:30 I said, instead of all this crazy talk about impeachment, and it may come to that.
I think that's really important.ĭS: 00:22 The thing that still rings in my ear - In your final essay, you talked about checks and balances. It kind of got rushed.ĬSJ: 00:07 I said, I'm looking for thoughtful conservatives who want to make the caset for Trump, and so we're getting some of that, right? You've gotten a number of letters and people saying, all right, I'll step up and try to address these questions. View of the Stone walls on the Upper Missouri (Tableau 41) by Karl Bodmerīerlin 1961: Kennedy, Khrushchev, and the Most Dangerous Place on Earth by Frederick KempeĭS: 00:01 Gee, I hope we did Tim Clemmons justice on this show. Plus, David gets a chance to brag about his two pound tomato, an Amana Orange.ĭownload this week's episode. We read a letter from our new political friend down south, Tim Clemmons, who wonders whether we are really fair about certain questions of the give and take of our Justice Department. We talk about a whole range of subjects, all of them generated by our listeners who are fascinated by the connection between Jefferson's era and the current chaos, whatever it is, in our national political arena. Sometimes it's easier to address them out of character, and that's this week's program.
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