birthright

“We like Mexican food, and we like to visit the restaurants. But we’re not going to sell out our birthright for a bean burrito.”

This is one reason they are embracing increasingly extreme anti-majoritarian policies such as voter nullification, voter suppression, radical gerrymandering and even rewriting the Constitution to end birthright citizenship.

If you accept the Constitution’s guarantee of birthright citizenship, then dissent from these principles isn’t a good reason to deny that those born in the U.S. are American citizens.

They aren’t monarchs chosen by God or birthright, but fellow citizens elected to lead a nation designed around hard work, integrity, equality and meritocracy as the keys to prosperity.

For Mr. Berry, you can come home again; indeed, the birthright of your ancestral tale means that you must.