No…
You just become meaner, forgetting why America was exceptional in the first place. Also forgetting that there is a difference between being strong and being tough.
Tired, shopworn word-play that is no longer effective... nobody's listening anymore, outside your own base.
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One would wonder why you’re responding.
Because tired, shopworn word-play still needs to be countered, lest it re-infect the less intelligent amongst you.
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One would wonder why someone would be “re-infected” with honesty if “nobody’s listening”
Noise, continuously blaring, eventually makes an impression.
Refutation of your tired, shopworn word-play serves to cancel-out that noise.
On the other hand, the more intelligent and pragmatic amongst you have come to realize that it's bad optics to stand alongside Illegal Aliens rather than your countrymen.
We need look no further than the Dems in the Senate refusing to shut down the government a second time on behalf of Dreamers.
Slowly but surely, your party is re-learning the Primary Lesson (stand with your countrymen) of November 8, 2016.