Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, a leading Republican presidential candidate, vowed to end birthright citizenship as a part of his immigration plan released Monday. “We will take action to end the idea …
He knows it will fail, but it gives him headlines with the racist, xenophobic base which is precisely what he needs in order to win the primary. He’ll probably be screwed in the unlikely chance he even gets to general, but that’s his problem.
And the irony is that the very same base likely does not understand what birthright citizenship even means and that abolishing it would negate their own citizenship.
It reminds me of back when I was in college and we had a guy on campus make a petition to end Women’s Sufferage as a prank. There were actually women who signed the petition because “women are suffering!” and that was awful.
It’s pretty much the playbook of all of DeSantis’ “accomplishments.”
Make a broad law banning or mandating some action.
Brag about how great, conservative, and anti-woke you are for passing this law.
Law gets struck down for being obviously and egregiously unconstitutional.
Either denounce “liberal activist judges who push the woke agenda” (ignoring that the judge was appointed by a Republican) or just ignore the ruling entirely and keep touting the law you passed regardless of the fact that it’s been junked.
Yeah, DeSantis is evil, not stupid. He has degrees from both Yale and Harvard. He knows full well what he’s doing and how things work. It’s all calculated evil.
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He knows it will fail, but it gives him headlines with the racist, xenophobic base which is precisely what he needs in order to win the primary. He’ll probably be screwed in the unlikely chance he even gets to general, but that’s his problem.
And the irony is that the very same base likely does not understand what birthright citizenship even means and that abolishing it would negate their own citizenship.
It reminds me of back when I was in college and we had a guy on campus make a petition to end Women’s Sufferage as a prank. There were actually women who signed the petition because “women are suffering!” and that was awful.
Women’s Sufferage is the right for women to vote.
It’s pretty much the playbook of all of DeSantis’ “accomplishments.”
Make a broad law banning or mandating some action.
Brag about how great, conservative, and anti-woke you are for passing this law.
Law gets struck down for being obviously and egregiously unconstitutional.
Either denounce “liberal activist judges who push the woke agenda” (ignoring that the judge was appointed by a Republican) or just ignore the ruling entirely and keep touting the law you passed regardless of the fact that it’s been junked.
Yeah, DeSantis is evil, not stupid. He has degrees from both Yale and Harvard. He knows full well what he’s doing and how things work. It’s all calculated evil.