President Trump DOES Have the Power to Reopen Churches Nationwide

May 22, 2020 5:10pm

President Trump announced today that all churches, synagogues, and mosques in America should reopen if they so choose in order to allow people to exercise their First Amendment Rights of religious freedom. He also said that if the governors (all Democrat governors, by the way) didn't allow it, he would override them and open the churches himself.

His claim of having that authority was universally denounced by Democrats and the media.

But President Trump actually DOES have the authority to force open churches even if governors oppose it. All he would need to do is federalize the National Guard and deploy them to various houses of worship with orders to prevent state and local police from arresting worshipers and clergy.

Of course, he would be attacked for such action by Democrats and the media - but I repeat myself. However, those attacks would give him an opportunity to defend his actions and educate the dumb masses (read those two words quickly) who don't know history.

He could remind people that it was Republican President Dwight Eisenhower who federalized the Arkansas National Guard and sent them to Little Rock with orders to prevent local police from enforcing the Democrats' unconstitutional edicts that black people could not attend the "white" public schools. The Democrat governors' orders to close churches, synagogues, and mosques are also unconstitutional.

It would be a win-win for the President because he could both appeal to his religious base and remind people that it has always been the Democratic Party that has discriminated against black people; and it has always been the Republican Party that has treated black people as equals.

Do it, Mr. President!