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KO in LA's avatar

If there were intellectual honesty on the right, it would go something like this:

- We believe in reducing the size and increasing the efficiency of govt. Therefore, we will work with our legislative majority to propose a series of bills that will accomplish our goals.

- We don't believe our country should have birthright citizenship. Therefore, we will begin the process to propose and get ratified an amendment to the 14th Amendment in the Constitution.

- We believe Social Security obligations need to be reduced through privatization and we will work with Congress to pass legislation to accomplish this.

- We think we should utilize more of our federal lands and national parks for drilling, mining and lumbering and we will work with Congress to pass legislation to accomplish this.

- We want to deport undocumented criminals in our country and will work within the due process rules in our Constitution to accomplish this.

They keep talking about their objectives and conveniently skipping over their unlawful methods. They have the presidency and a compliant legislative branch, so let them follow the law to achieve their goals.

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Zibon Wakboj's avatar

Okay, we all can see, the National Review is on board with autocracy. Trump's authoritarianism offers the right an opportunity to "win" long term by unconstitutional means. With the National Review's original editorial and their response to Mike's critique, the right's moral weakness, its surrender to Trump's temptation, is fully exposed. Congressional Republican support for autocracy has been implicit in their inaction, going back to the Senate's failure to convict Trump for 1/6 insurrection. Now we know they are explicitly standing on unAmerican, unconstitutional ground.

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