It’s time to be honest with ourselves. “President” is becoming a misnomer.

Trump pardoned some 144 true criminals before his ouster in 2020 (echoes of our own governor Bevin) and now Mr. Biden, who knows a good maneuver when he sees it, has followed suit. His son, Hunter is now the recipient of that same executive privilege. So much for legacy.

Mr. Trump, who is anything but shy about calling out any potential faux pas committed by anyone who has not kissed the ring, bent the knee or complimented the coif, has been suspiciously quiet on the matter. Well, you don’t mess with a good thing. There are a lot of seditionists in need of anger management classes biting at the bit for him to say the same magic word for them and, one does have to keep one’s options open if one plans on continuing to break, pardon, bend the rules.

At least that was the case until our highest, but not the most insightful, court determined that the entity in the White House cannot be held criminally responsible for any act that they can construe to have been perpetrated in good faith. It’s not a get out of  jail card but an immunity from jail card; a decision right up there with “businesses are people too” campaign contributions “reform.”

The response from our claymation Congress was crickets.

I really don’t think that the “founding fathers,” so often bantered about by misnomered “conservatives,” intended the creation of this person now with the evolving powers of an emperor any more than they wished assault weapons in every hand to defend against fast food workers divvying out insufficient ketchip packets. All we need now is a couple of years of 1930s Germany and the emasculation of representation by an empowered single party head and we are good to go.

I hope our crown and scepter are as cool as the monarchy of England.

Gary Verst

Bowling Green