It’s the president who wants to destroy the Constitution. Right? Wrong: as usual, the wacky accusation is a psychological projection from the mind of the right.
Judson Phillips: “Of course, when people talk, three Amendments that really are the only ones that seriously get talked about getting repealed: the 16th Amendment, for the income tax, and we can only hope that happens; the 17th Amendment for having the appointment of Senators got back to state legislatures; and the 26th Amendment, I believe it is.
Do you know which one that is, David?”
David DeGerolamo: “No, but I know which one I want repealed.”
Judson Phillips: “Which one is that?”
David DeGerolamo: “I want the 14th Amendment repealed.”
Judson Phillips: “At least modified, but yeah…”
This is not the first time DeGerolamo’s group has promoted the view that the Fourteenth Amendment should be repealed. As noted in IREHR’s Tea Party Nationalism Special Report, NC Freedom publicized a series of seminars conducted by a group calling itself the North-Carolina American Republic. These workshops, entitled “Restore our Republics,” promoted the notion that individuals can declare themselves citizens of the North-Carolina Republic–the “real government” that was taken away by the Reconstruction Acts after the Civil War. By these lights, the Fourteenth Amendment is considered unconstitutional. These ideas are derived from the warped constitutionalism of the Posse Comitatus in the 1980s, and groups such as the Freemen and Republic of Texas in the 1990s. (Emphasis mine)
Yeah. The man who held a Tea Party Convention and spurred a Tea Party Express wants a great going-backwards, as if to undo the decisions of history for the lure of right-wing militia propaganda about the way things “ought” to be. Phillips not only advocates doing away with the voting rights of young people, but renters and minorities.
Tell me again how these people still dominate the public discussion?
