Deserved props to Angus King (I-ME) [View all]

[misanthrope]

If you read Heather Cox Richardson's Letter from an American dated Feb. 7, 2025 then you saw them. It was refreshing to see someone spell out the dangers on the Senate floor.

“And…right now—literally at this moment—that Constitution is under the most direct and consequential assault in our nation's history,” King said. “An assault not on a particular provision but on the essential structure of the document itself.”

Why do we have a Constitution, King asked. He read the Preamble and said: “There it is. There's the list—ensure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, ensure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity.” But, he pointed out, there is a paradox: the essence of a government is to give it power, but that power can be abused to hurt the very citizens who granted it. “Who will guard the guardians?” King asked.

The Framers were “deep students of history and…human nature. And they had just won a lengthy and brutal war against the abuses inherent in concentrated governmental power,” King said. “The universal principle of human nature they understood was this: power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.”

There's far more that's just as good at
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/february-7-2024-144