Friday, August 7, 2026

Response to "The Causes Against Tyranny of the Orange King": No Case Against the President

 


James Preston Allen should be proud that so many Republicans read his newspaper.

If he’s angry, it means that all is well with the world.

The more that he complains about Trump, it means President Trump is doing a great job.

In his latest editorial, Allen weakly tied the “long chain of abuses” in the Declaration of Independence to President Trump.

Trump was duly elected, not a monarch installed by divine right and line of succession. In contrast, the Democrats installed Kamala Harris as the 2024 nominee, even though Joe Biden had won the primary (albeit losing primary contests and suffering “No preference” losses in liberal bastions like Minnesota).

Allen blames the President for Congress’ not voting on the War Powers Act. That’s the decision of Congress, not Trump.

The notion that Trump has refused to pass other laws for the “accommodation of large districts of the people” is nonsense. If the editor is complaining about the partisan redistricting, the blame falls on Democrats, who contorted the 1964 Civil Rights Act to force Democratic gerrymanders in Republican states. Turnabout is fair play.

Allen twists the Declaration’s section on dissolving representative houses, somehow connecting that to the DOGE efforts. Americans are grateful for the massive cuts to the federal bureaucracy. Why are so many people working for the government in the first place?

And of course, he calls President Trump’s enforcement of our nation’s immigration laws racist. Has he seen what black South Africans are doing to migrants in their country?

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