We’ve already had the dumbest post of the day thanks to The Lincoln Project, but this is from yesterday, so we’ll at least consider it a Friday contender. The first problem is assuming any scenario in which Kamala Harris is president. The second is assuming that Harris would close the border, let alone deport anyone.
Conor Friedersdorf had a thought experiment for us: Would conservatives be OK with President Harris deporting someone because they opposed DEI or men playing on women’s sports teams? That’s a strawman argument as if there ever was one. Obviously, he’s referring to the feds arresting a Columbia graduate student who is a Hamas sympathizer and led anti-Semitic intimidation campaigns against Jewish students. Democrats, always anxious to be on the wrong side of an issue, are defending Mahmoud Kahlil and claiming his threats against Jews were free speech.
I would ask if conservatives nodding along to this post believe it would’ve been lawful under the First Amendment for a President Harris to deport any green-card holder who objected to DEI or trans athletes participating in women’s sports? https://t.co/ZmXkSneKcA
— Conor…
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