In response to an article by Douglas MacKinnon published on “The Hill”
The Hill published an interesting and insightful article on
11/20/21 entitled “Do Americans deserve the right to recall
president?” Douglas Mackinnon was the author and opinion
contributor. The article was intriguing if not
prophetic considering that it touched upon the very mood of
the country and sentiments of many. Mackinnon asked the
question that many have wondered and indeed needs to be
asked, do Americans deserve the right to recall a president?
Mackinnon’s editorial begins by addressing known facts,
that “hundreds of thousands of Americans looked for a way to
impeach him (Trump) and get him out of office. Change.org
attempted to give them a platform to channel their angst and
anger.” He stated that more than six million signatures were
collected of people who wanted to “impeach him or recall his
election.”
First of all, we know how that went. It was a year long
circus. Everyone remembers how Nancy Pelosi and her fellow
colleagues turned the impeachment process into political
pageantry as she walked through the corridors of Congress with
their “findings” in hand to be delivered to the Senate. The
reasons for impeachment to this day remain ambiguous. It had
something to do with a phone call to the Ukraine President
about the state of corruption in Ukraine. The impeachment
citied and purportedly involved an implied threat to the
President of Ukraine to withhold funds which to Pelosi and
cohorts deserved impeachment.
Mackinnon noted that one impeachment petition stated
“We, the undersigned, have no confidence in Donald Trump
ability to lead or country. He is unfit for office, he is a national
embarrassment…he is hopelessly compromised, blatantly
unethical, and demonstrably ignorant.” The next words were
most telling. “The best and most expedient method to replace
him with a fit POTUS is a national recall election, and the
sooner the better before he and his administration can do more
harm.”
As far as the reasons for removing a President, we couldn’t
agree more. Indeed, those are serious reasons for removal,
no argument there, and it should be noted than any President
guilty of those accusations is not “fit” to hold the highest office
in the land. MacKinnon noted that it was a grass roots
movement that lead the charge, and though on that point we
couldn’t disagree more, MacKinnon did say that those who
signed the petition to remove Trump “would be hesitant to
apply even one of those charges to President Biden or his
family.” We know that to be true because the very people that
attacked Trump so viciously now must stand in the political
mirror with egg on their face. Why do I say that? Because
Trump had hundreds of thousands of people lined up for miles
cheering for him wherever he went and Biden, not so much.
Biden’s name is cheered alright, literally cheered; people chant
his name in football stadiums around the nation week after
week. In fact, those cheers are so loud they are heard all
around the world. Wherever he goes his name is cheered and
no amount of PR gimmicks can erase the cries of millions to
“f*#k Joe Biden!”
You see, those cheers at football games and baseball
games and racetracks are legitimately a grassroots movement.
This is what a real grassroots movement looks like. They
express all the sentiments that were politically manufactured
and directed at previous President. Real grassroots movements
don’t have to manufacture anything. They do not originate
from highly funded groups. No, the ire and derision the people
feel for Joe Biden is completely spontaneous. What we have
witnessed in football stadiums is an act of defiance against
what people feel is an oppressive regime. The term monarch is
of late is what is used now to describe Joe Biden and his
administration, and the people’s frustration and angst over
these matters is boiling over in public events. People feel they
have no voice elsewhere, so they stand up in public places as an
act of civil protest.
This is a real problem for Biden and his political operatives.
The first problem is that they actually laid the groundwork for a
recall. They defined the reasons very well during the last
administration. They set the foundation, put it in form. They
set the mold but now who fits that mold? Who is an
embarrassment to the nation? Who is unfit for office? Who is
compromised, blatantly unethical and demonstrably ignorant?
Those terms seem haunting now, don’t they? They do but even
if those terms did apply to Trump, what could not be
questioned was Trump’s enormous popularity. Wherever he
went stadiums were packed, people lined up for mile after mile
to cheer him on. All across the land Trump flags still fly to this
day. He is still popular, but not so with Joe. The only flags with
Biden’s name on it have unflattering words that go with it. If
one doesn’t believe that then they need to take a drive, widen
their sphere of influence, get outside the box, because it is
everywhere.
So where does all this lead us, back to the recall.
Mackinnon noted that the impeachment process is flawed, it
has never accomplished more that creating nauseous political
theater. In the Hill article, Douglas Mackinnon, went on to
discuss numerous other issues about a recall but he never
broached the one avenue that could actually bring it about and
make it happen. That would be a constitutional amendment,
the 28 th amendment to the constitution. He discussed the 25 th
Amendment which could remove an unfit, incompetent, or a
president in ill health, but that would pose an even bigger
problem if the vice-president was just as incompetent, would it
not? The answer to that I think we all know.
What we do have that can save a nation from a derelict
president is Article V of the Constitution. Consider it a last
resort, a safeguard. Article V grants Congress or the States the
ability to draft and ratify new constitutional amendments. That
is what the 28 th amendment is about. It is a singular
amendment that would give the states with 3/4ths majority the
authority to initiate a recall election of President while
simultaneously holding a national election to replace him or
her. Ultimately it is the people that decide. The citizens vote.
If he or she is not recalled, then they stay in office. If they are
recalled, then they are replaced. It is that simple, cut and dry.
This is what we should consider, putting Joe Biden aside,
why shouldn’t we the people be able to recall a President? Any
President? If they are not doing the job that we are happy
with, are we just made to suffer through years of
incompetency? What if the President violates the constitution
and the oath he took to the American people? What if the
president leads our nation down roads of destruction and peril?
Causes us to get in wars we don’t want or support or can’t
afford? What if the president proves over and over again that
he or she does not know how to manage the nation, our
economy, or other affairs? Is our only option to be dragged
through political impeachment process without result? Is the
only expression of dissatisfaction that we have left is to stand
up in football games and curse the Presidents name? Is that
where we are?
These are legitimate questions. The Hill article was
excellent in more ways than one. It dared to discuss the issue
that others have suspiciously avoided, but it still did not
conclude with an answer. The answer is here, it was there all
along. The answer is the 28 th amendment. The answer was
founded by a small group of citizen volunteers who formed
Recallnow.us and said we can do this. It will take a lot of hard
work but so? Isn’t our nation worth the effort? We think so,
absolutely. It will take three fourths of the states to get it
passed but it can be passed. We concur with the signers of all
those petitions to recall the former president, that we must
have “a national recall election, and the sooner the better
before he and his administration can do more harm.”
The mold has been set. It was defined during the last
presidency, and it should be the qualifier for any president now
or in the future. Should we be subjugated by a president who is
a “national embarrassment?” Should we be the victims of one
who is “hopelessly compromised, blatantly unethical, and
demonstrably ignorant?”
We think not. We think we should not have to suffer
through years upon years of abuse until the next election. We
should have a mechanism whereby we the citizens can pull the
escape hatch and remove such a president and his or her entire
cabinet. For all these reasons it is time to ratify the 28 th
amendment. Not only do we deserve it, but we must also have
it to save our nation, and as Joe Biden himself famously said
recently in the concluding remarks of a speech, “End of
Message.”
Those wishing to get involved are urged to contact us and
help us move the 28 th amendment forward to ratification. Call
1-855-732-2559 or email us today at [email protected].