@LivingBlueinRed: “White rural America was cool with democracy until it was faced with the possibility of becoming a minority”

@FrankConniff: “I don’t get it. Why would Trump prefer immigrants from Norway over immigrants from Haiti and African countries? What’s the one factor that makes Norwegians different? Am I missing something?”

This is one of those days where I wonder “is this it? Is this the bridge too far that will finally make Republican lawmakers place the defense of our form of government over ideology, policy agendas to gut the safety net, party affiliation and just pure tribalism?” And then Paul Ryan comes out and says that the president’s shithole comment is “very unfortunate and unhelpful” and I despair.

And then I think back on pussy grabbing and saying that white supremacists and neo-Nazi’s had some very fine people and I begin to think this grand experiment in representative government is over.

The dream and hope of America was never about racial or ethnic or religious identity. It had been about a shared belief in certain unalienable rights and the values enshrined in the Constitution and none of those are dependent upon your race, religion, gender, sexual orientation, or national origin. When a person comes here they agree to live by those precepts and the members of Congress swear an oath to defend that Constitution that enumerates those rights and obligations. It’s about time those Republican lawmakers remembered that.