First it was “rapists, drug dealers, and murderers.”
Now it’s become anyone with brown skin that they can grab.
Next it will be anyone who disagrees with Trump.
They’re going to come for all of us
The narrative of the Trump administration’s deportation policy stated with “violent criminals”, the worst of the worst. Then it was just “criminals”, and yes, if you were undocumented, you were a criminal. Never mind that this was all bullshit, that ICE was snatching anybody, including citizens, this was the narrative.
Then the administration has decided to step into another narrative, ending birthright citizenship, because, I don’t know, brown anchor babies or some such crap.
I keep tabs on these people, forewarned is forearmsed, etc. The other day I ran across a couple of articles in The Federalist that set alarm bells to ringing.
“Not Everyone With U.S. Citizenship Is Actually An American”
“Liberals today — and not a few self-described conservatives — would decry much of this as racist and bigoted. The entire idea of an American identity has been rejected in favor of the flimsy notion that America is merely an idea. Anyone from any part of the world, goes the thinking, can become an American so long as he assents to a set of abstract propositions about individual rights and goes through a neutral administrative process.
According to this attenuated view of American identity, being an American doesn’t mean loyalty to this country, gratitude for its glorious history, reverence for its founders and heroes, or love for its people and land. It certainly doesn’t mean adherence to a common morality, language, or way of life. It simply means securing a set of documents that confer citizenship, or even just legal status. For such people, it doesn’t really matter what you love or where your loyalties lie; all that matters is that you have sufficiently engaged the relevant bureaucracies.
This of course is how you destroy a nation. As Aristotle explained at the beginning of his Politics, the nation comes into being through the civic comity and natural affection that arise from a common language, morality, and culture, which he calls philia. From this arises telos, which is the natural end or purpose of a thing. In American political terms, we might say that our national telos is “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness” — understanding that last phrase, “pursuit of happiness,” to mean what the founders meant: not a relativistic seeking after pleasure or fulfillment, but the acquisition of moral virtue.”
https://thefederalist.com/2025/07/02/not-everyone-with-u-s-citizenship-is-actually-an-american/
“It Should Be Obvious By Now That Not Everyone Can Become An American”
“I wrote last week that in America today not everyone with citizenship is actually an American. To some, this might sound incendiary or extreme. Certainly it violates the tenets of multiculturalism that have been ascendent in America for decades now. But it’s actually just a straightforward observation of reality — so long as we understand that being an American means something more than merely securing legal documents or going through a neutral administrative process. Doing so might confer citizenship, but it will not make someone an American.”
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“But beyond immigration, Vance is touching on something essential about America that has been largely lost, suppressed really, for more than a generation: America is not just a “propositional nation,” not just an idea but a people. That’s why you cannot export the Constitution to some random country and expect the same kind of government or suddenly import millions of people from foreign lands and expect America to survive. We are not a set of abstract propositions to which anyone from any part of the world can assent and suddenly become an American. We are a people with a common language, culture, history, customs, and so on.
About 20 years ago, Pat Buchanan had a more pugnacious version of what Vance said: “It is not true that all creeds and cultures are equally assimilable in a First World nation born of England, Christianity, and Western civilization. Race, faith, ethnicity and history leave genetic fingerprints no ‘proposition nation’ can erase.”
This is an important point, and it has to be asserted even at the risk of being falsely accused of racism or xenophobia. A nation requires a certain amount of cultural cohesion — common language, customs, morality, and way of life. That means some cultures and creeds are simply not compatible with American civilization. Multiculturalism, in other words, is a dangerous delusion that, combined with mass immigration, is a nation-destroyer.”
https://thefederalist.com/2025/07/11/it-should-be-obvious-by-now-that-not-everyone-can-become-an-american/
I find this attitude chilling, it is essentially, and not so subtly, saying that if you don’t believe in America as a God fearing, conservative, straight, white, christian nation, you don’t belong here, whether you’re a citizen or not, whether you were just naturalized or your family goes back generations, you are not a “real” American, and you need to be, at the least, kicked out of the country.
This is why they’re pushing so hard for ending birthright citizenship, for the ability to denaturalize citizens. They want the capability to kick out anyone who doesn’t fit their definition of a real citizen.
Expect more propaganda like this, softening up both their supporters and the public at large. Expect even worse than this, for once you make your fellow human being an “other” or “not a real” whatever, you open the door to all kind of atrocities.
Forewarned, forearmed, etc. This is coming.
First they came for the Communists
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a Communist
Then they came for the Socialists
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a Socialist
Then they came for the trade unionists
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a trade unionist
Then they came for the Jews
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a Jew
Then they came for me
And there was no one left
To speak out for me
— Martin Niemöller
After Adolf Hitler came to power in 1933, Niemöller became an outspoken critic of Hitler’s interference in the Protestant Church. He spent the last eight years of Nazi rule, from 1937 to 1945, in Nazi prisons and concentration camps.
