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The majority of the people's opinion.

Which elected a democratically-elected representative.

That is how democracies work.

If there's anything the executive has power over besides commander in chief, it would be leader in chief of defining what is actually, American.

The fact that prior presidents have actually abdicated this important role, doesn't mean it didn't exist. This is why traditions of the State of the Union, etc exist. The executive gets to call the plays towards unity for Americanism.

This is what foreign countries do as well.



And next time the Democrats get elected they will filter out all the right wing professors/students, and this will make you happy?


discriminating in employment due to one's affiliation is illegal in state and federal employment [1]. That does not mean one can break ToS and for example, publish on a massive public platform, your private opinion (which can be misconstrued as your employer's). Most employers have ToS against online activity during employment, for that reason.

It is also illegal to do the same for students. [2]

Faculty is already protected under tenure rules. And even for the nontenured, who really needs protecting ? Only 5.7% of all faculty are registered as conservative as of 2020 [3]

My point remains. "Filtering out" is illegal. Setting the stage on what is american, is not.

[1] https://www.legalmatch.com/law-library/article/political-aff...

[2] https://www.nysasa.org/index.php/news/6558-schools-cannot-en...

[3] https://www.thecollegefix.com/democratic-professors-outnumbe...


> for the nontenured, who really needs protecting ? Only 5.7% of all faculty are registered as conservative

Plenty of right wingers are granted visas to spread nonsense in America. It would make sense to put them on visa bans.


> next time the Democrats get elected they will filter out all the right wing professors/students, and this will make you happy

Yes, actually. We have the precedent. Both for the action and for these people being dangerous to our safety and civil society.




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