President Donald Trump has committed so many crimes and set The Constitution on fire so many times that you should be able to see the flames from the Mighty Mississippi. It should be a nightly show for our honored guests here attending the World Cup. Of course, they are all wonderstruck by Buckees and Costco. The members of the Left who are our fellow citizens are totally butthurt that in a decade they have made nearly no progress in convincing America that Trump is evil walking the face of the Earth. Actually, in the last decade has won two (three) national elections. So, pffft.

Journalist John Avlon has a raging case of Trump Derangement Syndrome (TDS). This week’s incoming missive is titled “The founding fathers warned Americans about someone like Trump”. Avlon began this (painful to read) article with these paragraphs:

As our 80-year-old Mad King goes on midnight social media revenge benders from the White House, attacking the pope after attacking Iran, enriching his family by billions and comparing himself to Jesus, some of his supporters are now panicking and asking, “Who could have seen this coming?”

The answer, of course, is any sentient being not blinded by partisanship who lived through the first four years of Trump’s presidency, which included more than 30,000 lies, a mismanaged pandemic that killed a million Americans, and culminated with his attempt to overturn an election on the back of a big lie that led to an attack on our Capitol.

Any “sentient being” can see Mr. Avlon has got issues that he needs to deal with but pushes them off on President Trump. Here is more from the article:

The U.S. Constitution was designed to protect the rights of the people against the rise of a would-be tyrant. The founders understood they were embarking on a rebellious project that had never succeeded before. As John Adams scowled, “There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide.” Their aim was to build a structure that could withstand the forces that destroyed democracies in the past.

That’s why the founders explicitly warned about the dangers of a demagogue, the poison of hyperpartisanship, the corrosive effects of corruption and foreign influence, the politicization of religion, and the erosion of the separation of powers.

Yes, by those basic standards, we’re living through the founders’ nightmare. But the right response is not civic despair but a defiant resolve to reclaim American patriotism and fix what’s been broken so that we can strengthen our democracy to survive the next 250 years.

So skip the saccharine Trump nationalism and “Dear Leader” iconography this July 4th. Instead, read the founders’ own words to serve as a North Star in chaotic and divided times.

Avlon has got such a burr up his butt about Trump that he doesn’t want to celebrate the Fourth of July on our nations 250th birthday. I don’t care who the President is, we should always celebrate Independence Day. Our nation is a little bigger than one President.

John Avlon is a Sour patch Kid who got a TKO from Scott Jennings:

Scott Jennings lands a haymaker on Democrat John Avlon after he called the James Comey indictment “partisan BS” and tried to brush off threats against President Trump as “occasional.”

JENNINGS: “Well it’s not ‘occasionally.’ I mean they’ve tried to assassinate him three times.”… pic.twitter.com/Q6mz8wf2tB

— Overton (@overton_news) April 30, 2026

John Avlon ran and lost this race for NY 1. Probably calling Republican “MAGA Minions” AND talking about our Democracy being in danger didn’t help:

By the way, Avlon now writes for the Bulwark and is married to Margaret Hoover.

Here is more from the Avlon missive denigrating Donald Trump:

The founders also warned us against the use of religion as a political weapon. Consider Trump’s posts comparing ­himself to Jesus, or the repeated invocation of Christian nationalism by the self-styled Secretary of War Pete Hegseth, who sometimes mistakes scripture for the script of Pulp Fiction.

This is not what the founders wanted. Jefferson emphasized the freedom of religion portion of the First Amendment to the Constitution – which states that Congress “shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof” – by explaining that this amounts to “building a wall of separation between Church [and] State.” Just in case any current official tries to state that this freedom was intended to be limited to the predominant Judeo-Christian tradition, the 1796 Treaty of Tripoli has an answer for that: “The government of the United States of America is not in any sense founded on the Christian religion.”

Naturally there is more to that quote:

“As the government of the United States of America is not in any sense founded on the Christian religion, as it has in itself no character of enmity against the laws, religion or tranquility of Musselmen, and as the said States never have entered into any war or act of hostility against any Mehemetan nation, it is declared by the parties that no pretext arising from religious opinions shall ever produce an interruption of the harmony existing between the two countries”

We are a Judeo-Christian nation, but all are welcome unless they think their religion trumps our Constitution.

When it comes to being “unprincipled in private life, John Kennedy and Bill Clinton comes to mind. And others.

TDS is sad for adults, writers and those who have to deal with them. If Trump ever does start to set fire to The Constitution, I will be the first to come for him. Until then, shut your piehole.

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