{"id":59453,"date":"2026-02-11T00:00:06","date_gmt":"2026-02-11T00:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=59453"},"modified":"2026-02-11T00:00:06","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T00:00:06","slug":"stand-firm-constitution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=59453","title":{"rendered":"Stand firm, Constitution"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n\r\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap\">My defense of the U.S. Constitution as a defensive weapon against the assault being launched by the current president of the U.S.A. is being tested more frequently than I would like.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>However, I am standing firm in my belief that the founders built a governing framework that is meant to stand against the stresses and strain that keep threatening to knock it down.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>Except that it won&#8217;t. Be knocked down, that is.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>I met a gentleman this past weekend and the conversation turned to Donald Trump&#8217;s assault on the Constitution. My new friend expressed fear that Trump will succeed in creating a dictatorship. I begged in the moment to differ with his view. I told him of my longstanding faith in our constitutional strength.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>The strength of our system rests within the electoral system. The Constitution grants ultimate authority to American voters to determine the nature of the leadership that shall guide government policy.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>Make no mistake, we don&#8217;t always get it right. Consider that Trump has been elected twice to the presidency. The man sold us a dose of snake oil that went down smoothly to enough Americans to elect him to the White House.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>I believe, though, that Trump&#8217;s 15 minutes of fame are about to expire. The midterm election is approaching and when they count the ballots in November I believe we will witness a wholesale slaughter of the Republican majority that now governs us from Capitol Hill.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>Right there is where the Constitution of the United States shows its teeth &#8230; and then sinks them into the throat of the beast that seeks to destroy it.<\/p>\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My defense of the U.S. Constitution as a defensive weapon against the assault being launched by the current president of the U.S.A. is being tested more frequently than I would like. However, I am standing firm in my belief that the founders built a governing framework that is meant to stand against the stresses and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=59453\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Stand firm, Constitution<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[1424,7576,5043],"class_list":["post-59453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","tag-donald-trump","tag-midterm-election","tag-us-constitution"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59453","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=59453"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59453\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59455,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59453\/revisions\/59455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}