Vice President JD Vance has been on fire this week, laying down schooling on a variety of issues.
He explained in depth the Trump's administration's position on Ukraine to historian Niall Ferguson in a post that many cheered. Then he followed up with another post, rebutting aspects of Ferguson's response. That also appealed to people -- here, we finally have a vice president who is intelligent and able to explain policy without getting lost in a word salad. What a change it's been from the prior four years.
Vance also took on the latest thing the Democrats were trying to make into an issue -- the replacement of Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Charles Q. Brown. The talking points must have gone out. The Democrats are trying to paint it as somehow political, but it's normal for a president to pick the person he wants, since the role is to be the president's principal military advisor. I wrote earlier about the meltdown Susan Rice had.
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Rep. Seth Moulton (D-MA) went there as well, as our friends at Twitchy reported.
Dictators or wannabe kings fire generals who don’t agree with their politics. This isn’t a banana republic. What Trump and Hegseth are doing is un-American, unpatriotic. It's definition of politicizing our military, and we should expect to see loyalty oaths (not to the Constitution) and worse coming soon.
Wow. What a failure to understand history or the Constitution.
The president is the commander-in-chief. He gets to make this choice; that is the norm, there's nothing political about it. The Democrats are the ones reacting politically. Just like there isn't supposed to be an "unelected bureaucracy" dictating to the president what to do, the generals aren't supposed to be an unelected fourth branch of government dictating to the president.
On Saturday, Vance went to school on Moulton:
Truman fired McArthur. Obama fired McCrystal. Civilian control of the military is “banana republic” according to this very thoughtful congressman.
Exactly.
All these objections are about trying to cut into normal presidential power, when Democrats themselves stomped all over the norms of that power. Obama also did what people termed a political purge of military leaders, as we've reported before. You even had Biden declaring an amendment to the Constitution that didn't exist. They have no standing to object to what has always been normal process--given their past behavior.
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It's about doing anything they can to try to stop Trump from putting into effect policies with which they would disagree. They want to make him subject to the officials and not the other way around--that's what all this about.
It's madness, when they're the ones trying to upend the Constitution.