The idea that Ilhan Omar could - even as a matter of mass-dunderhead rhetoric - be treated as a non-citizen because the president and his admirers do not like her politics (which are quite unlikeable) does violence to the idea of citizenship per se. In that much, it is fundamentally and literally un-American. (Kevin D. Williamson)

The idea that Ilhan Omar could - even as a matter of mass-dunderhead rhetoric - be treated as a non-citizen because the president and his admirers do not like her politics (which are quite unlikeable) does violence to the idea of citizenship per se. In that much, it is fundamentally and literally un-American.

Kevin D. Williamson

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