Did Biden stop evil? Did he stop Trump from running again? Did he shut down ICE? Did he close Guantanamo Bay? Did he expand the Supreme Court? Did he replace the USPS board of governors to fire Dejoy? Did he stop Israel from committing genocide with US support?

anyway it’s interesting to think about how like, in every era, we mostly understand popular thought based on who had access to written language that could be passed down, but there have always been these massive gaps between what the priest says and how you and your family live on your farm

Very few provisions on the Constitution have a meaning as readily and definitively discernible from text and history as the Citizenship Clause. All credible evidence leads to the same place. If self-proclaimed originalists can’t get this one right, they discredit the entire project of originalism.