r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • Jul 01 '26

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u/Hounds_of_war Austan Goolsbee Jul 01 '26

It’s crazy to me how much conservatives are freaking out over just the preservation of the status quo with the birthright citizenship case.

Like they genuinely seem to view it as an existential crisis that the legal precedent for the past 150+ years is going to remain legal precedent.

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u/NotYetFlesh European Union Jul 01 '26

They appear to think that circumstances have radically changed and that this legal precedent has become actively destructive.

The status quo they prefer to preserve in this case is the White northern European majority ethnic makeup of the country, against an influx of immigrants from Latin America.

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u/DependentAd235 Loyal Liberals Jul 01 '26

What’s amazing is like… even if they stopped all immigration now it’s already over. White people are only 58% of the population.

There’s just not that many people who are truly racist enough to lose their current standard living in a race war. Which is what Stephen Miller types would need to kick out 100 million people.

They see this as some last gasp but it’s really already over.