INGERSOLL: Americanism Isn’t Bad, It’s Just Republican

it’s just Republicanism. Their proof is Robert Ingersoll, a 19th-century orator who was famously a Republican and famously patriotic. Fine. We’ll take that trade. Americanism *as a unifying creed* is a thousand times better than the left’s alternative, which seems to be permanent grievance with a side of flag-burning.

Then there’s the other part of the story, the sneering phrase “anchor baby” used literally. Someone out there is mocking a real child’s birthright because it doesn’t fit their blood-and-soil theory of nationhood. But here’s the thing: an anchor baby is just a baby born with a claim to this country. That’s not a scandal. That’s the whole point of America. This is a nation of promise, not pedigree. Ingersoll understood that. He didn’t care about your ancestry; he cared whether you’d stand for the Constitution.

The left thinks calling Americanism “Republican” exposes some dark secret. It doesn’t. It reminds us that the party of Lincoln and Ingersoll fought to make the country live up to its founding words. If that’s a bad thing, you’re arguing against the best idea we’ve got. And if mocking an infant’s citizenship makes you feel clever, just remember: that child will grow up in the same America you do, with the same rights to speak, vote, and tell you exactly what they think of your cheap insults. That’s not an argument against the system. That’s the system working.