I wonder if Gonzalez considered “Russia, if you’re listening, I hope you’re able to find the 30,000 emails” an incitement of a foreign power to facilitate “Invasion U.S.A.”? Invasion of the US through the Internet and its networks in order to influence a presidential election (cyberwar) has more and worse ramifications than asylum seekers crossing a border.

The first sign of someone having a bad education about the history of this nation is when they speak of “the founding fathers” as though they had a single point of view. They did not, and in fact their views were spread across a very wide spectrum. As an example, Thomas Paine was by far one of the most influential, if not the most influential of the founding fathers, with his writings considered among the if not the most influential at the start of the Revolutionary War (Common Sense, most notably), and by all accounts he would have made the modern far left blush with many of his views.

People think the “founding fathers” started with Jefferson and ended with Washington, and ignore all of the other founding fathers with wildly divergent points of view.

Also, individualism is not in tension with collectivism. Individuals can be part of a collective and still have equally strong individual rights. That is a false dichotomy.

Huh?

I don’t get your reasoning.