'drifting' with a capital D. Too bad; too sad.

Right! I revise my statement to what Blanco said.
Furthermore, there are other departments that require the same treatment.
Foremost would be the IRS that illegally harassed conservative organizations.

Too bad he didn't seem to understand the message of Atlas Shrugged, and blamed businesses for leaving the country.

What a load of crap.
Just to address one of his points, "I asked where in the Constitution does it authorize building a wall to keep out immigrants whom Americans want to hire."
Congress, under the Plenary Power Doctrine, has the power to make immigration policy. The Executive Branch is charged with enforcing the immigration laws passed by Congress.
There is a legal process for immigration. Building a wall or whatever other means are chosen for enforcing current immigration law is clearly established in the Constitution.

I never liked Trump. But I saw it as a choice be-
tween certain death and Russian roulette, and I
would do the same thing again. I was very uneasy
about some tendencies, perhaps dictatorial, of
Trump's, but thought that Hillary Clinton was no less dictatorial.
Still, I don't really trust Trump. Now that he
has won, we have to watch him and clamp down
on him, when necessary.
There is a talk show host, Mark Levin, who
has been proposing a "convention of states". At
first I thought it was a second Constitutional
Convention, and would be a disaster, but he ex-
plained that it would not be a convention
for a whole Constitution, but specific amendments, which would have to be individually ratified by the
states, or they couldn't become part of the Constitution. (And, who knows, maybe we could
get rid of #16?)

I also think that maybe we should promote
the American Capitalist Party, maybe not at the
Presidential level to start with, but at the local
and Congressional levels.

Another thing to try would be to end the pro-
cess of "crossovers" in state primaries (I mean
on a state-by-state level). For a long time, there
were no primaries in Virginia. One reason for not
bringing them in was the possibility of registra-
tion by party. But we could do it this way: Let
a voter vote in whichever party's primary he chose, but then he would not be allowed to vote
in any other party's primary for a term of years--
perhaps 1 1/2 election cycles (6 years). He could still vote whichever way he chose in the
general; he could even cross over if the chose,
but if he tried to thereby mess up the other party's primary, he would have to do it at the price of not voting in his own.

An interesting contrast to the above article, courtesy of the Atlas Society:
http://atlassociety.org/commentary/co...

"Trump described himself as an Ayn Rand fan. He said of her novel The Fountainhead, “It relates to business (and) beauty (and) life and inner emotions. That book relates to ... everything.” He identified with Howard Roark, the novel's idealistic protagonist who designs skyscrapers and rages against the establishment. When I pointed out that The Fountainhead is in a way about the tyranny of groupthink, Trump sat up and said, “That’s what is happening here.”
http://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion...

The Ayn Rand crowd is not monolithic. There appear to be more Trump supporters than detractors here in the Gulch.

You are so on the money that if you were a racehorse, I'd bet it all you. The way ARI interprets a Trump speech is like calling every piece of music in two-four time a march.
Sorry, my mind woks in metaphors.

...and one large step for Humanoidal kind...let's hope not.

I've long thought that both the White House and the Justice Department would need to be fumigated after Hussein and his band of scoundrels slithered out of town.

Finding fault where none exists is so much like the Progressive's carping that it casts a pall on the entire article. It is true that the Trump presentations can be taken pre-emptive steps toward a dictatorship. But so can several speeches by Lincoln, FDR, RFK, Reagan, and others depending on how you choose to interpret the words. English is a beautiful language but is not to be used as a scientific expression such as math. Every word can have several interpretations. With language, intent is what counts, and while Trump's language is not the most precise, anyone can interpret the intent behind it. I choose to believe in Trump's good intent until such time as his actions prove otherwise.

I don't believe this author has a clue about Trump........his merits or his flaws.

Many ++++'s DrZ

"...expecting straight honest thought from ARI."

It does make one wonder, and hopefully more vigilant re ARI.

The article gives me concern re ARI's "drifting".

Yes, because the left is nothing if not VINDICTIVE to people they don't know, don't care about, and don't understand.

This article, as do a lot of people in this country, places too much importance on the office of president. Yes, congress has given up too much power to the administrative state. Yes, the supreme court has taken too much power when there is supposed to be a separation of powers. And, yes, the federal government is encroaching on us more and more daily.

However, I think the Trump election was more a reaction to that than anything else. We needed someone who was not a typical Washington crony who would continue this encroachment. I think this is what we got. If he has some ego problems, so what? If he makes the government start to do things "under budget and EARLY" like he does in his business, then we will start to roll back the encroachment. If you don't think him making the government more efficient will include lessening the encroachment, you're not paying attention! My 2 cents. :-)

Reminds me of stuff written about Ronald Reagan before his first day in office.
It was in 1980 even word of mouth rumored that Reagan was the antichrist~
~The freaking antichrist?!~
~and I'm talking about a small town where I lived at the time in RURAL ALABAMA of all places.

Part of this does strike me as more Trump bashing. The other part strikes me as "don't delay the revolution" rhetoric.

Me dino is too.

Alabama dino has been a consistent Sessions voter
and my opinion of Trump went sky high with this appointment to run the DOJ.
Sessions may want to fumigate the building after the corrupt lib way Holder and Lynch ran it.

If Hillary had been elected, I think a more convincing case could be made that we are headed for dictatorship. Especially considering the behavior of many of her supporters since the election.

Probably the most utterly stupid statement in this piece is that while Trump might do some really good things, they shouldn't count, because he's doing them for the wrong reasons. This preposterous piece of tripe goes further to say that people voted for him mainly out of the fear he generated, as though we were all blissfully content with things just the way they are.

I feel the writer is engaging in projection, assuming that if he acted as Trump has, his motivations would be dangerous. That's a tell-tale for leftist thinking, with which I am well experienced, having had to deal with liberal hysterics in family and government. I can't count how many times I've had to say "How about asking me why I have a certain view or took a particular action, instead of telling me why I did?"

My wife received an email from Penzey's Spices the other day, telling her that if she voted for Trump she was a racist. We've been customers of Penzeys for 20 years, but no more. Insanity has become contagious, and it's sad to see it's now infecting the Ayn Rand crowd.

If one of my guys wrote a report like this I would tell him to start over completely. This thing runs on and on, without a logic trail to follow.

We had two real choices and a protest vote. The least of the dictators won. I have no idea how a Trump victory contributes to a dictatorship, unless you go back to the primaries, where the vote against the status quo was even stronger.

The message is clear, and it is not supporting a dictatorship.