kropotkhristian:

With Trump now claiming that he can unilaterally just take away the right of birthright citizenship, a right explicitly and unambiguously written in the 14th Amendment of the Constitution, I just want to make something clear.

The Constitution doesn’t mean anything. Anybody in power can ignore it whenever they want, and they have done so repeatedly throughout US History. Screaming “this is clearly unconstitutional” is correct, but ultimately hollow – as any historian of the US knows. It doesn’t matter what the Constitution says. It never has. And it has certainly never mattered to conservatives – these people wield the constitution in the same way they wield the Bible – as a means to exercise power. That is the beginning, middle, and end of the right-wing relationship to he Constitution.

If you see conservatives screaming about adhering to the Constitution, ask them what they really want, because it is normally something dark. Because they will throw out the constitution as soon as it suits them. They have done so, and they will always do so, and calling them out for their hypocrisy will never change their mind. They want to keep and maintain power. That’s it.