( The Gazette ) – As a passionate University of Iowa journalism student in 1961, I veered into political science for a promising course on the presidency. Its focus: U.S. presidents’ lusting after powers not spelled out in the often-fuzzy Constitution. What a letdown it seems today. Neither the professor nor the books I had to buy envisioned a President Donald Thump. Neither did the Founders in 1789 when creating the presidency and the Constitut…