[the_doc]

You took the words right out of my mouth. Our Framers hated democracy. They feared that democracy would destroy us. (One merely has to Google their many, many negative comments about democracy to appreciate the fact of their concerns.)

It goes without saying that we need to close our borders. (Trump and Cruz would both do this, of course.) If we don't recover nationalism, we are doomed.

OTOH, patriotism is no guarantee that we will not ruin ourselves through stupid politics. (Many of our most ardent patriots are ignoramuses. A couple of years ago, I met a redneck Democrat who loved Obama--and he explained that the main reason why he liked Obama so much is because Obama is so patriotic, so pro-military, and so pro-firearms.)

[plymaniac]

For the first time that I can recall we have a significant political movement that publicly and unabashedly advocates the confiscation of private wealth from some, the criminalization of unpopular political or scientific opinion and the disarming of the American people en masse.

The Constitution needs to be defended one way or the other and we are running out of time.

If that means we need a General Grant so be it. I will buy the whiskey.