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American Thinker, by Thomas Lifson — July 5, 2019
Excerpt:
President Trump holds winning cards on the Census citizenship question, both politically and legally. An overwhelming majority, 67% of Americans, see such a question as legitimate, and those who want to obscure the difference between citizens and non-citizens have an argument that will not add to the ranks of those voting Democrat in the 2020 presidential race. Moreover, despite media spin (“American pride has hit an all-time low, a poll finds“) emphasizing the increase in the number of Americans who aren’t proud (almost all of the increase among Democrats, who love America only when a Democrat is president), fully 72% of Americans are “extremely proud” or “very proud” of being an American.
With progressives increasingly defining themselves as anti-American and the Democrats’ presidential field intimidated by the left extreme of their base, President Trump’s struggle to include a citizenship question can be positioned as a fight for the interests of Americans in contrast to the interests of border-violators — especially in light of a convincing legal strategy that somehow escaped the notice of the solicitor general of the United States, Noel Francisco, whose office argues the federal government’s cases in court.
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