The failure of Axios to report that Trump supports white nationalist policies

The 14th Amendment guarantees our right to citizenship and our right to equal protection under the law, even if we as a nation have ignored this basic truth.

Axios is vapid.

In a story that looks plain enough on its face, Axios reported their Exclusive: Trump targeting birthright citizenship with executive order.

The story treats the idea as if it’s merely another political plank, standard operating procedure, a debatable position. It’s clear that Axios, as a publisher, believes this idea because of the lede and the headline.

But this is vapid. And it’s vapid because the lede isn’t, “Trump to end birthright citizenship.”

The lede is, “Trump proves he wants white ethnostate, a key white nationalist plank.” To report this, they’d have to know the history of the 14th Amendment, why it exists, and why it guarantees birthright citizenship.

Clearly, they don’t. If you don’t, I’ll share what I learned from Mr. Ray Provo, the high school civics teacher who demanded that I understand the U.S. Constitution, its historical development, and the history and reason for all of the Constitutional Amendments that were put into existence. Including and especially the 14th Amendment.

The 14th Amendment begins with Dred Scott.

Dred Scott was a person born into slavery. The person who claimed he owned Dred Scott took him to a state where…