America’s Beloved President Trump
by _______?
The relationship of the American people to the President is always a source of pride for Americans and of great surprise for foreigners. Nowhere else in the world does one find such fanatic love on the part of millions of people for a person, a love that is not exaggerated or hasty, but rather grows from deep and great faith, the kind of lasting confidence children may have in a very good father.
There have been emperors and kings, rulers and heroes,
usurpers and terrorists, intelligent and important leaders at the heads of
nations, but never before has there been something so simple as this: a
President Donald Trump. This is unique in the history of the world, and the
American people have the good fortune to have him. If one fails to understand
this, he understands nothing about the American people, nor why people’s eyes
glow, their voices shout, their arms rise, their hearts beat faster, when
Donald Trump appears before the American people. From these outward signs of
the steady and mysterious connection between the President and people, Donald
Trump receives the strength he needs for new works, and the people receive
power from his gaze…
Only the name of the leader, his nation and his title have
been changed in this translated excerpt from the 1939 essay about Adolph
Hitler, the German Führer entitled (in English), “The Führer and the German
People”.
The source: Otto Dietrich, “Der Führer und das
deutsche Volk,” Adolf Hitler. Bilder aus dem Leben des
Führers (Hamburg: Cigaretten/Bilderdienst Hamburg/Bahrenfeld, 1936, pp.
19-26.
What changed? The German Constitution!
Note: Hitler was subject to the constitution of the Weimar
Republic that declared Germany to be a democratic parliamentary republic with a
legislature elected under proportional representation. Universal suffrage was
established, with a minimum voting age of 20.
The constitution technically remained in effect throughout the Nazi
era from 1933 to 1945. But after the Reichstag Fire Decree, the Enabling
Act of 1933 amended the Weimar Constitution to allow Hitler and
his government to enact laws (even laws violating the constitution) without
going through the Reichstag. Nazi intimidation of the opposition resulted in a
vote of 444 to 94 to enact the Enabling Act.
The current authority of the U. S. President is “limited” by the U. S. Constitution. If the President is “Enabled” to exceed those limits, he could, for example, annihilate millions like Hitler.
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