Democrats Constitutional and Historical Ignorance (Or Is It Convenience?)

Friday, January 16, 2026

Tim Walz has declared war on the federal government.  Clearly the man has no understanding of the history of the Civil War or of just how the Constitution works.  This seems to be common in Blue States.

This headline caught my eye yesterday, “Proposed California legislation aims to ensure President Trump is excluded from 2028 ballot.”  It forced me to wonder if the legislator involved, California state Sen. Tom Umberg, has ever heard of the 22nd Amendment to the Constitution.

But I am forced to wonder if it is ignorance or merely a convenient understanding of it?  There was an Instapundit post yesterday chronicling in tweets Walz’ declaration of war.  Among the tweets, this:

These are the same people who constantly warn about “threats to democracy,” yet believe they can bypass the Constitution…

And I thought back to covid when California’s governor Gavin “Newscum” (I know that nickname is below the belt, but it is deserved in this particular instance) banned church services and had to be sat down by the Supreme Court.  And I thought about Obama’s governance by pen and phone.  Are they ignorant of the Constitution or do they merely view it as a convenience to be used to constrain Republican’s agenda while freeing theirs?

Come to think of it, Umberg’s utterly ignorant proposed California law is born of the impression he must hold that the Constitution is secondary to personal will.  In order to think Trump would find a way around the 22nd amendment, he must assume his side might do the same.  And there, I think, it is.  Personal will above law.

Such thinking is rooted much deeper than merely thought on approaches to government.  We formed this nation to no longer live by the whimsical will of a king or a far away and disconnected parliament. We have, over the course of several hundred years, become a nation of millions of little tyrants, each desiring their will above anything else – deciding what laws apply to them and what laws do not.  That is self-regard on near pathological levels.

It is going to take more than a few elections to fix this problem.

And as long as we are talking about California…

The worst idea in the history of bad ideas is having entirely foreseeable consequences.

Or is it the worst idea ever?  It has significant competition – how in the world do they propose to pay for it!?!?!?!?!

And since they did so well banning church, they’ll try free speech too.

Finally, this is long and a tough read, but well worth the effort.  Simply put, California cannot execute and will obfuscate, inflate and outright lie to make it look like it does.