Donald Trump seems also not to understand John Adamsās fundamental observation about the new nation that came into the world that same year. Just last month, an interviewer from Time magazine asked the president in the Oval Office, āMr. President, you were showing us the new paintings you have behind us. You put all these new portraits. One of them includes John Adams. John Adams said weāre a government ruled by laws, not by men. Do you agree with that?ā To which the president replied: āJohn Adams said that? Where was the painting?āWhen the interviewer pointed to the portrait, Trump asked: āWeāre a government ruled by laws, not by men? Well, I think weāre a government ruled by law, but you know, somebody has to administer the law. So therefore men, certainly, men and women, certainly play a role in it. I wouldnāt agree with it 100 percent. We are a government where men are involved in the process of law, and ideally, youāre going to have honest men like me.ā
And earlier this month, a television journalist asked Trump the simple question āDonāt you need to uphold the Constitution of the United States as president?ā Astonishingly, the president answered, āI donāt know.ā The interviewer then asked, āDonāt you agree that every person in the United States is entitled to due process?ā The president again replied, āI donāt know.ā
This is not a man who respects the rule of law, nor one who seeks to understand it.
Trump and the MAGA movement are the most dangerous threat to this country since the Civil War. And most assuredly, they are a threat that has now sank their claws into the very heart beat of our democracy. This article is both frightening and a warning. Unless voters take trump seriously at his threats to dismantle the foundations of our democracy, trump, miller, and musk will certainly stake a flag of death into the life blood of this nation. Yes, a Civil War within has begun. Not a shot has been fired, but it is underway.

