“Well, as much as I would like to say foreign enemies of the US should not be able to father the POTUS, I can’t. It troubles me a bit, because, to be perfectly frank, I can be xenophobic, and I can also be discriminatory.”
Maybe you can be xenophobic, but the Founders couldn’t. They were far more concerned w preserving the rights of foreigners than w anything else. For instance, suppose King George wanted to send for an American wench, impregnate her, send her back to give birth on Am. soil, and then bring the brat home to raise as a good loyalist/monarchist. Do you think the Founders would have put up for one minute w discriminating against that? Heck no! They WANTED such enemies of the Republic to qualify for POTUS! Everybody knows they put the rights of foreigners above all others, and the concept of xenophobia simply had no place in their thinking.
Well, it’s fine with me if they wanted such enemies of the republic to qualify, because we as voters need to be smart enough to identify and prevent such threats from attaining power.
If we aren’t, then eventually, someone is going to slip in and kill us from the inside, just as someone has done and is doing right now.
We weren’t smart enough to see, and that is the root of this problem.