What’s the biggest problem facing the country today? The Left would have you believe it’s Donald Trump, but Andrew Klavan doesn’t think that’s so. The real problem the nation has is the deadlocked legislature, and Andrew explained how that’s creating the ridiculous protests toward Brett Kavanaugh during his confirmation process.
“There’s not a crisis in this country. Donald Trump is not a crisis, he’s an obstreperous businessman outsider doing what he said he was gonna do,” Klavan said. “He’s got traits I don’t like, he does things I don’t like. He does things I think are great, he has traits that I think are hilarious and fun, all those things are true – that’s not a crisis. Believe me, when you see a crisis you will know it. “
Klavan went on to explain what is a real crisis.
“It’s a crisis when you don’t have a job. It’s a crisis when you can’t say what you want to say without getting banned and shadow banned and mobbed and lose your job. It’s a crisis when you can’t speak the truth. Those are crises,” Klavan said. “This is not a crisis. This judge is not a crisis, and they’re just trying to set that up because they know if they can affect your mood, it will affect the politics of the country and especially it will affect the midterms.”
Video and transcript below:
The Supreme Court has been hijacked by leftists who feel that you can appoint people like Ruth Bader Ginsburg, and Breyer; guys who will not think about the Constitution – who talk about the “living Constitution,” which is a constitution, as Antonin Scalia would say, that it’s a new day every day – it just says different things on the Constitution every single day. Oppose that to those on the conservative side who want to uphold the law, who are not there to make law but are there to referee whether the law fits into the context and the construction provided by the Constitution. Then the failure in the legislature, the deadlock in the legislature is what is seriously wrong with the country.
When you have two sides that can’t sit down and make immigration law, when you have Chuck Schumer waving a pen at the press saying the president should be making the law, the president should be making laws about immigration, and nobody in the press thinks to say “Excuse me? You’re the legislature, the legislature means you’re supposed to be making the law.”
That’s a problem, when you make legislative laws, this goes on the Right and the Left, this is not just on Schumer this is on both the left and the right, when you make laws about immigration you are going to displease somebody. You are going to displease the people who want to throw out all the evil Mexicans, and you’re gonna throw out all the people who want to let in all the wonderful Mexicans. Whatever they’re thinking you know you’re going to displease people on both sides and you may get unelected, you may get thrown out of office – that’s your job, and the legislature is frozen.
Each side is playing to its base, they can only make the absolute law that is going to satisfy the base on the right and the base on the left, so they can’t make any law. They can’t compromise, they can’t talk to one another, they can’t be seen to be weak, because if they’re weak they’re going to have the right or the left mobilize against them and throw them out. That is not the way the legislature is supposed to work.
We’re a divided country right now, that means our legislature has to compromise because we have to compromise, and that’s the way the world works. If that doesn’t happen, you have a Supreme Court making law – five people passing laws over you, an executive making law with his pen and his phone like a king, and then it becomes necessary to slander people – to Bork them as the Democrats invented as Kavanaugh is being Borked right now.
Bob Woodward may be right in every single particular in his book. Maybe every day in the White House somebody’s calling somebody else an idiot, and maybe Donald Trump is going off half-cocked and people are stealing papers off his desk. I don’t buy it, but maybe some of it’s true, maybe all of it is true, whatever, but that seems to be working really well.
What’s not working is the legislature, what is not working is a group of people who cannot get together and agree that this is a completely qualified individual to serve on the Supreme Court. He should not be slandered, some of the things that happened yesterday were disgusting. The reason this [Kavanaugh protest] is happening is all back to the legislature. It all goes back to a legislature that will not take the risk of being voted out of office, that will not pass a law that will not compromise, that is answerable to its donors and to its base, and is frozen solid, it is frozen solid.
There’s not a crisis in this country. Donald Trump is not a crisis, he’s an obstreperous businessman outsider doing what he said he was gonna do. He’s got traits I don’t like, he does things I don’t like. He does things I think are great, he has traits that I think are hilarious and fun, all those things are true – that’s not a crisis. Believe me, when you see a crisis you will know it.
It’s a crisis when you don’t have a job. It’s a crisis when you can’t say what you want to say without getting banned and shadow banned and mobbed and lose your job. It’s a crisis when you can’t speak the truth. Those are crises. This is not a crisis. This judge is not a crisis, and they’re just trying to set that up because they know if they can affect your mood, it will affect the politics of the country and especially it will affect the midterms.