We no longer live in a constitutional republic.  Congress routinely passes bills that violate the letter and the spirit of the Constitution, and judges boldly legislate from the bench instead of upholding the Constitution. American progressives celebrate the new regime.  For them, it represents a victory over a political system they consciously reject.  Americans who do not identify as progressives display a range of attitudes about the situation we now find ourselves in as a nation.  Some are indifferent, some are resigned, some are uneasy, and others are deeply concerned or even alarmed. But what most non-progressive Americans share is a lack of clarity about what has replaced the constitutional republic the Founders designed for us and how it came about. How can that possibly be?  How can it be that America's governmental system has been overthrown and yet most Americans don't even understand what has replaced it? Certainly the...(Read Full Post)