When Newsweek publishes this information, it's probably even worse than they want us to know.

It's sometimes difficult to tell whether the writers for this publication don't really know much about how the Constitution works, along with the limits on Presidential power, or whether they are deliberately biased, knowing that most of their readers are ignorant about how the Constitution works. Newsweek has had an almost hopeless right wing bias for decades, going back to the days of the Johnson and Nixon Administrations.

I'm not a bellwether of Newsweek readers. I used to be a subscriber, and got a copy hot off the press every week. I'd read it in the evening, while relaxing after work, and was always looking for pieces to share with my high school students for current events value. That stopped around 2000, with the election of George W. Bush as President. That seems to be the moment when they took a hard right turn. I cancelled my subsscription after reading some of their 9-11 coverage.

The Allsides website, which measures media bias and characterizes it as either far left, left, center, right, and far right, puts Newsweek in the center. Perhaps that's because it does, on occasion, publish articles that wouldn't get published or aired on Fox News or in the Wall Street Journal. I do have to give credit where credit is due, they aren't making any excuses or softening the blow of a poll that is the single worst drop in public opinion for any President of the United States since before Franklin Roosevelt. It's there, noted, that Trump is critically unpopular, and ventures to explain why.

But, American journalism is full of examples of times when true patriots recognized that being fair to a subversive and dangerous ideology and its proponents was also a danger to the existence of the nation, and they used their words to characterize the subversion, warn their readers and motivate them to action in order to defend their liberty. Those aren't just nice words about history. The fact of the matter is that we have a demagogue in the White House who hasn't hidden his subversive intentions. We have arrived at the point when that subversive intent has itself become a fact that not only requires reporting, but needs to be considered in opposition to all patriotic American values, and needs to be reported as such.