The drafter's of the Constitution made one very flawed assumption about those who would [View all]

[Atticus]

govern our nation. They assumed that those elected by the people to positions of almost unimaginable power and responsibility would have a conscience and possess a sense of shame. Like nearly all people, they possessed these common human traits and, as most of us would have, pre-Trump, they assumed everyone did.

There is nothing in the Constitution that says a president should not lie, should not intentionally insult anyone who disagrees with him or that he should not praise murdering thug dictators of traditional American adversaries. The framers didn't think such obvious directives were necessary. They could not have anticipated Trump. They could not have imagined such a spineless Congress.