What “Not My President” Means to Elizabeth Warren

We’ve spent the last three and a half years suffering through choruses of “Not my president!” from the kinds of people that think Pete Buttigieg is the most qualified person running to be president. So it’s not surprising that presidential hopefuls are echoing the sentiment in their comments on the night of the Iowa caucus. What is interesting, however, is what Elizabeth Warren means by it.

Alright, she didn’t actually say the words “not my president.” At least I don’t think she did, but I didn’t watch the entire speech because I don’t fancy being driven to lethal violence tonight.

What I’m interested in starts at around 10:30:

“Tonight is for every undocumented, unafraid organizer and volunteer who proudly knocked on doors to let the world know the path of progress runs through courage, not fear.”

For context, this is part of a whole thing about calling out particular volunteers, so no, her entire focus wasn’t on illegal immigrants. But the fact that she made this point, that she symbolically gave the first night of the democratic process of a great country’s free election to people who have stomped all over the rule of law, is disgusting.

Look, I have a lot of sympathy for immigrants in the U.S. I think our immigration system is absurdly convoluted and it’s no wonder masses of people feel like legal migration is an insane pipe dream. But we can’t pretend it’s not a problem that we have millions of people living in the country, availing of all the privileges of being an American while shirking the responsibilities.

And we shouldn’t pretend it’s not a problem that a woman who wants to be the President of the United States holds these illegal immigrants in higher esteem than roughly 50% of her fellow citizens, people who pay their taxes, people who are born Americans or put in the time and effort to become one legally (and believe me– it’s a huge enough pain in the ass just to temporarily MIGRATE to another country, let alone become a citizen). Warren has a record of holding people who dared disagree with her socialist dystopian vision in contempt, from declining to engage a farmer on the ludicrous Green New Deal to telling a hard-working father he’s SOL because he doesn’t want to foot the bill for someone else’s bullsh*t liberal arts degree, but she goes out of her way to exalt literal criminals whenever she can.

When it comes to Elizabeth Warren, “not my president” means that she couldn’t care less about being MY president. She has no interest in being your president, in being a single Republican’s president. She cares about being the president of greedy, envious money grubbers who can’t bear the idea that someone else has more than them or that they should be held accountable for their actions. She cares about being the president of people who flaunted the rules of the country they were desperate to live in. She cares about unilaterally altering the fabric of the country via executive order after executive order, Constitution be damned.

We should be terrified and disgusted that someone who is so blatantly anti-American is one of the top polling candidates. I can enjoy the circus that is the Democratic primaries just as well as most of you, but at some point we have to draw a line between what’s perversely entertaining and what’s just plain immoral. Elizabeth Warren isn’t fun anymore. She’s a morally bankrupt, power hungry, aspiring monarch and she needs to go.