Think Progress points out that Trump's new immigraton plan is even more racist than it seems at first glance. It fundamentally returns to the logic of Dred Scott. Birthright citizenship was a repudiation of Dred Scott.
"Birthright citizenship, the principle that infants born on U.S. soil automatically become citizens regardless of ancestry, was written into the Constitution as an explicit repudiation of Dred Scott. “All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof,” the Fourteenth Amendment begins, “are citizens of the United States and of the state wherein they reside.”
"Prior to the ratification of the Fourteenth Amendment, Congress enacted the Civil Rights Act of 1866, which contained many of the same protections later enshrined in the amendment — including a birthright citizenship provision. As Elizabeth Wydra explains, some members of Congress expressed concerns that this provision would extend citizenship to immigrant populations they viewed as undesirable, including “the Chinese population in California and the West, and the Gypsy or Roma communities in eastern states such as Pennsylvania.” Pennsylvania Sen. Edgar Cowan, for example, expressed concern that the Civil Rights Act would “have the effect of naturalizing the children of the Chinese and Gypsies born in this country.” Meanwhile, the law’s supporters explicitly rejected these nativist concerns. As Sen. Lyman Trumbull explained, “the child of an Asiatic is just as much a citizen as the child of a European.”
"Andrew Johnson, the accidental president transformed into the nation’s chief executive by the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln, is widely remembered for his efforts to maintain white supremacy against African Americans. Yet Johnson’s racism was not limited to freedmen. In a message to Congress explaining his decision to veto the Civil Rights Act of 1866, Johnsoncomplained that the provision providing that “‘all persons born in the United States, and not subject to any foreign power . . . are declared to be citizens of the United States’ . . . comprehends the Chinese of the Pacific States, Indians subject to taxation, the people called Gypsies, as well as the entire race designated as blacks, people of color, negroes, mulattoes, and persons of African blood.”
http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2015/08/17/3692187/donald-trumps-first-policy-plan-is-even-more-racist-than-you-think-it-is/
Bear in mind that Scott Walker has also embraced the Trump plan-indeed, he claims he had it first but Trump went and read his mind and said it first- and it got very favorable reviews yesterday on Fox and Rush, etc.
Tom Brown expressed to me the wish that we could have Ingersoll Republicans again.
"I may be a "Trump Democrat" today, but I wish it were again possible (someday) to again be an "Ingersoll Republican." - See more at: http://lastmenandovermen.blogspot.com/2015/08/scott-walker-opens-door-to-striking.html?showComment=1439851442043#c7589753454519089428"
http://lastmenandovermen.blogspot.com/2015/08/scott-walker-opens-door-to-striking.html?showComment=1439851442043#c7589753454519089428
That's the appalling beauty of it. The GOP is now literally defecating all over its own legacy. The modern Republican party started out as a Northern abolitionist party. They are now literally repudiating their own legacy and that of founding Republicans like Lincoln, Ingersoll, and Thaddeus Stevens.
Bruce Bartlett just said in a tweet that Trump is the iD of American politics. He is certainly that of the Republican party.
https://twitter.com/brucebartlett
I think at this time it's finally time to put the GOP on the couch. Pscyhoanalyze the GOP.
http://daily.jstor.org/donald-trump-the-id-of-republican-politics/
How else do we explain how the party of Lincoln has embraced Dred Scott?
"Birthright citizenship, the principle that infants born on U.S. soil automatically become citizens regardless of ancestry, was written into the Constitution as an explicit repudiation of Dred Scott. “All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof,” the Fourteenth Amendment begins, “are citizens of the United States and of the state wherein they reside.”
"Prior to the ratification of the Fourteenth Amendment, Congress enacted the Civil Rights Act of 1866, which contained many of the same protections later enshrined in the amendment — including a birthright citizenship provision. As Elizabeth Wydra explains, some members of Congress expressed concerns that this provision would extend citizenship to immigrant populations they viewed as undesirable, including “the Chinese population in California and the West, and the Gypsy or Roma communities in eastern states such as Pennsylvania.” Pennsylvania Sen. Edgar Cowan, for example, expressed concern that the Civil Rights Act would “have the effect of naturalizing the children of the Chinese and Gypsies born in this country.” Meanwhile, the law’s supporters explicitly rejected these nativist concerns. As Sen. Lyman Trumbull explained, “the child of an Asiatic is just as much a citizen as the child of a European.”
"Andrew Johnson, the accidental president transformed into the nation’s chief executive by the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln, is widely remembered for his efforts to maintain white supremacy against African Americans. Yet Johnson’s racism was not limited to freedmen. In a message to Congress explaining his decision to veto the Civil Rights Act of 1866, Johnsoncomplained that the provision providing that “‘all persons born in the United States, and not subject to any foreign power . . . are declared to be citizens of the United States’ . . . comprehends the Chinese of the Pacific States, Indians subject to taxation, the people called Gypsies, as well as the entire race designated as blacks, people of color, negroes, mulattoes, and persons of African blood.”
http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2015/08/17/3692187/donald-trumps-first-policy-plan-is-even-more-racist-than-you-think-it-is/
Bear in mind that Scott Walker has also embraced the Trump plan-indeed, he claims he had it first but Trump went and read his mind and said it first- and it got very favorable reviews yesterday on Fox and Rush, etc.
Tom Brown expressed to me the wish that we could have Ingersoll Republicans again.
"I may be a "Trump Democrat" today, but I wish it were again possible (someday) to again be an "Ingersoll Republican." - See more at: http://lastmenandovermen.blogspot.com/2015/08/scott-walker-opens-door-to-striking.html?showComment=1439851442043#c7589753454519089428"
http://lastmenandovermen.blogspot.com/2015/08/scott-walker-opens-door-to-striking.html?showComment=1439851442043#c7589753454519089428
That's the appalling beauty of it. The GOP is now literally defecating all over its own legacy. The modern Republican party started out as a Northern abolitionist party. They are now literally repudiating their own legacy and that of founding Republicans like Lincoln, Ingersoll, and Thaddeus Stevens.
Bruce Bartlett just said in a tweet that Trump is the iD of American politics. He is certainly that of the Republican party.
https://twitter.com/brucebartlett
I think at this time it's finally time to put the GOP on the couch. Pscyhoanalyze the GOP.
http://daily.jstor.org/donald-trump-the-id-of-republican-politics/
How else do we explain how the party of Lincoln has embraced Dred Scott?
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