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Former President Donald Trump<\/a> is right: There’s no reason<\/a> he should sign a GOP loyalty oath in order to participate in the candidates’ debates.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Such oaths, which the Republican National Committee employed in the 2016 presidential primary \u2013 only to see the last remaining candidates, including Trump,\u00a0abandon it<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 aren’t just signs of a party’s weakness; they are also profoundly silly and even un-American.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yes, we swear plenty of legally enforceable oaths \u2013 in court cases, for example, or declarations on tax forms and other legal documents. But oaths binding candidates to support someone who they’ve campaigned against, throwing elbows, mud and other rhetorical barbs at them for months to convince voters the guy was a bum?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I’ll defer to what Sen. Ted Cruz<\/a> said<\/a> of such an oath back in the 2016 presidential primary:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Cruz has dodged the question of whether the pledge still holds by insisting he will be the nominee. Though on Friday, in an apparent reference to Trump, Cruz said, \u201cI don’t make a habit out of supporting people who attack my wife and attack my family.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

We all know that Cruz eventually did support Trump’s candidacy and became one of his biggest defenders in the Senate (which was amusing).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But the oath? Nah. The 2016 primary should have been instructive to party leaders that such commitments are transactional at best and unenforceable in fact. Which brings us to the state parties.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

They have been long-time players in loyalty oaths, often attempting to bind voters to the party’s eventual nominees. While such pledges are even sillier and utterly unenforceable, that hasn’t stopped new ones from cropping up this year. Consider the case of\u00a0Florida<\/a>‘s\u00a0pledge<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Christian Ziegler, the chairman of the Florida GOP, said in an email that the loyalty pledge is an effort to \u201censure maximum unity\u201d headed into the 2024 general election.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe days of outlier party grifters \u2013 such as Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger \u2013 using Republican Party<\/a> resources to secure a title and then weaponize that title against our own team must end,\u201d Ziegler said, referring to two former House members, who are among Trump’s most vocal GOP critics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cContested primaries are part of the process,\u201d he said, \u201cbut we must always remember that the Democrats are the true threat to the America we love and we must be unified to defeat every single one of them.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

The true threat to America is noxious oaths that bind us to men rather than pledges or oaths that bind individuals to uphold the law or tell the truth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You know, like the only oath that should ever matter for a presidential candidate:\u00a0the one<\/a>\u00a0the Constitution requires:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my Ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Every other partisan oath is legally dubious, intellectually suspect and, in the end, not worth the paper it’s printed on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The opinions expressed in this article are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the positions of\u00a0 Great America News Desk. It first appeared in <\/em>American Liberty News<\/em><\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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