America at the Crossroad

Prof. Paul Eidelberg
If Ted Cruz, a constitutionalist, is not the choice of the GOP, America’s 2016 presidential election will probably be a contest between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton; and if Mrs. Clinton is elected, this would be a national disaster of the profoundest dimensions.

Without ignoring Trump’s vulgarity and egoism, this in-your-face tycoon is a populist or nationalist, whereas Mrs. Clinton is a self-effacing globalist or internationalist.

If elected President, Hillary, following two example of President Obama, would soon have the opportunity to fill two Supreme Court vacancies with liberal or left-wing internationalists.

This would effectively terminate America’s national sovereignty, together with the democratic principle of government by the consent of the governed. A revolution would then be around the corner.

On the other hand, if Hillary is the Democratic Party’s candidate, and if Trump is the choice of the GOP, the tycoon would have more than enough evidence to so expose Hillary – if he so desired – that she might never again be invited to give a public lecture!

However, such an exposé would be so sordid that it would demoralize the American people and trash the exalted principle of government by the consent of the governed!

America’s 2016 election may thus be the last of a once free and proud people, a people, however, that had already betrayed their Judeo-Christian heritage by twice electing a self-professed Muslim as their President.