LETTER: Who’s in charge?
The election is over, so we can all cease and desist with all of the nonsense. The election took place. “Democracy” was apparently never in question.
However, as a nation, we now have a period of calm and clarity. Maybe all of us should take a few minutes to consider what is going on before all of us. If “democracy” was the tertiary concern of the electorate, as per some exit polls, consider the following:
We had a president withdraw from an election and be replaced by an unelected surrogate because he was not cognitively capable of running for re-election. The replacement was never elected to anything at the federal level on their own merit and, in fact, dropped out of the 2020 Democratic presidential primary before the Iowa caucuses after being exposed as a charlatan by Tulsi Gabbard.
Joe Biden still holds the office of the president of the United States, Yet, he lacked the executive function to run a national political campaign or engage in a political debate.
I have heard very few people question who is running the ship at this point. That is astounding. I understand that Democrats don’t want to draw attention to the fact that unelected officials have been running our country, potentially, since 2020. The same people ignoring this obvious fact are the same folks that all of the sudden got religion and learned what the 25th Amendment to our Constitution says five years ago and attempted to weaponize it.
A very fair question to ask is “Who is running the Oval Office?”.
Collectively, we deserve an answer. Who is, or who has been, running the executive branch for the past few months, or perhaps since early 2021. This is the biggest threat to our representative republic.
Donald Trump is the least of our worries. This is the real constitutional crisis.
Josh Barrette
North Franklin