Jamie Raskin Schools Glenn Grothman On American History

Congress debated adding a question about citizenship to the US Census.

Representative Glenn Grothman of Wisconsin, being the full-blooded racist that he is, wants to keep immigrants from being counted. And to promote that, he thought he had found a gotcha clause that would just burn the Democrats. He forgot all about Representative Jamie Raskin:

Grothman: First of all, our pledge of allegiance, which we say every day, we pledge allegiance to the republic for which we stand - right - that the flag in the republic for which we stand. When Benjamin Franklin, after our Constitution was ratified, he talked about giving us a republic, if we can keep it. And I think people should analyze those two little quotes and wonder why they were references to the republic in both of them in any event.

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