The Dems are trying to keep former Confederate leaders out——assuming that’s what they consider Trump.
Enforcement of Reconstruction would be impossible if Congress, in the words of Pennsylvania Representative Thaddeus Stevens, was “filled with yelling secessionists and hissing copperheads.”——History.com
The Post-Civil War Origins of the 14th Amendment’s Disqualification Clause.
Actually, it’s the opposite. They’re trying to keep the INSURRECTIONISTS in.