What Ilhan Omar Gets Wrong About the U.S. & What American Citizenship Means, with Matthew Spalding
January 20, 2026
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as posted by the channelEmily Jashinsky is joined by Matthew Spalding, author of “The Making of the American Mind” and Dean of the Van Andel Graduate School of Government at Hillsdale College’s Washington, D.C. campus. As America nears her 250th birthday, they discuss how immigration and citizenship debates reflect a deeper crisis over what it means to be an American. Spalding explains that the Founders understood citizenship not as mere residence, but as belonging to a self-governing people united by shared principles rooted in the Declaration of Independence. They contrast this with what Spalding calls the modern left’s rejection of citizenship distinctions and national loyalty, using comments by Ilhan Omar as an example of a broader turn toward viewing America itself as illegitimate or oppressive.
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