Beginning a thread on the pledges that ought to be asked of the candidates for the 2020 election. This need not be confined to the Presidential elections, either.
- (For the Democrats) Jake Tapper, a journalist with CNN, has said that he has observed that when one Party pushes back the norms and boundaries of the Presidential office, the other Party won’t hesitate to take advantage of the new powers when it wins the Presidential office. Will you, Democratic candidate, pledge to restore the boundaries and norms that have been allegedly destroyed by the present and previous Administrations? Will you give consideration to the modification or even repeal of the legislation in which Presidents may give themselves emergency powers? [I.e., begin the migration of power back to Congress.]
- Will you pledge to not use precision messaging during the balance of your campaign, and to confine all political message to the public arena? [Precision messaging is the transmission of campaign material to a voter on a private line, such as an email, which permits the material to be tailored to the point where different voters are told opposite information, depending on who they are. That lies must result should be obvious.]
