Trump's Qualities

[BmorePat87]

(10-18-2016, 02:19 PM)Fan_in_Kettering Wrote: I can.  The Constitution was not written for career politicians but for citizen-legislators.  Donald Trump is very much in the original tradition of the Founding Fathers whose idea was to have regular people run for office, serve a short time, and return to their lives and live under the laws they made.  Trump has been living under the laws and regulations made by careerists and he knows the damage they cause.  During the primary I wanted any of the three true outsiders to win the nomination: Trump, Ben Carson, or Carly Fiorina.

I disagree with this. Those who were the most directly influential of the Constitution and abandoning the Articles were not fans of the masses, and it shows in how who could vote in 1788 and how we elected the President. While Thomas Jefferson certainly was a man who promoted the common man and farmer over the elite and politicians, we wasn't around for the writing of the Constitution, and Madison and Hamilton weren't subscribing to that.