Is the Constitution hazardous to our nation? According to The New York Times it is. At least, that’s what the Times’ nonfiction book critic, Jennifer Szalai, postulates in her recent article, “The Constitution Is Sacred. Is It Also Dangerous?”
She writes, “Americans have long assumed that the Constitution could save us; a growing chorus now wonders whether we need to be saved from it.”
She writes of Donald Trump’s presidential victory in 2016 as Exhibit No. 1: “Trump owes his political ascent to the Constitution, making him a beneficiary of a document that is essentially antidemocratic and, in this day and age, increasingly dysfunctional.”
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