We are asking the wrong question. The issue is not who should be trusted with all the power of the Presidency. Instead, we must ask how much power any candidate can be trusted with.

It is one of the great tragedies of the US, that most learn most of what they know about the government from the government.

Freedom is whatever the president says it is, pending revision.

The government's appearing to be a necessary evil does not oblige people to trust it. We face a choice of trusting government or trusting freedom-trusting overlords who have lied and abused their power or trusting individuals to make the most of their own lives.

This is a case if the President is permitted to be above the law, then we no longer have a republic.

The more that voting is glorified as a panacea, the more lackadaisical people become about preserving their constitutional rights.

If so many Americans are looking for the government to save them, then it is hard to have a dignified search for a shepherd in chief.