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Reminder that an element of Trump's success was his refusal to behave like this. He always has the same slight NYC accent, same delivery, same style of dress. He's not faking like he's from your town. I actually think AOC would have better appeal if she were just herself.

1.2 million people have died of COVID-19 so far in 2026 just in the U.S.- and some people still believe it's just a cold. Compare that to 23,000 deaths from flu.

FWIW, some Democrat will run in a contested primary arguing the anti-inclusion position and win (or come close). And then you'll see an avalanche of people shifting. The reason you don't see it now is because of the role of false accusations of bigotry in the Democratic Party.

A great deal has been said about the birthright citizenship decision, but the central point is that Justice Thomas completely exposed the logical incoherence at the heart of Chief Justice Roberts’ “reasoning.” You cannot reconcile a constitutional framework that denies automatic citizenship to members of Indian tribes, even when born on U.S. soil, with a doctrine that automatically hands out citizenship to Chinese and other birth tourists as if it were candy. There is no logical, coherent, or even barely comprehensible way to square those positions. It is simply not possible. If Native Americans are not entitled to Fourteenth Amendment citizenship, then neither are birth tourists.

Yes, the Reconstruction Congresses deliberately amended the Constitution to prevent simple and transient majorities from depriving part of the citizenry of their constitutional rights. It was among the greatest achievements of our republican experiment.