Because you can’t vote Britain out of Europe any more than you can vote Minnesota into Tuscany. Ted Cruz will restore the old Republic where citizenship can be restricted to the righteous and the cleanly and the Ten Commandments can be enacted into law and stoning can be a deterrent to heresy. The Trumpster went around banging his dishpan, whooping it up for ignorance and superstition, and if he triumphs, then there goes Texas. And what came of their stubborn heroism was a democratic republic that has raised a beacon of humanism in this dark world. Jefferson wrote the words and all of them thought long and hard about the gallows and wrote their names.

Source: Washington Post June 30, 2016 18:22 UTC