Dear Ann Coulter: Just say you only want white people to vote.

Ann Coulter rarely rises to the level of deserving serious attention, and I am very open to the argument that this is not one of those moments. But a tweet she offered on Monday night, hours before Election Day polls opened across the country, offers some insight into the composition of the United States and into its history.

Also, it's gross and deserves to be identified as such.

Here's the tweet.

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If only people with at least 4 grandparents born in America were voting, Trump would win in a 50-state landslide.
10:42 PM - 7 Nov 2016
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It took zero-point-zero seconds for people to note that Coulter's only-native-grandparents clause would leave out some prospective Donald Trump voters — like Donald Trump. His mother was born in Britain, his grandfather in Germany (though the Trumps liked to tell people he was actually Swedish). So: no Donald Trump vote. That Trump's mother was born overseas means that none of his kids could vote either, if they were registered to. That Trump's first and third wives were also born overseas means that none of Trump's current grandchildren and none of young Barron Trump's eventual progeny would be allowed to vote.

In other words, in Donald Trump's immediate family, only Tiffany Trump's kids might be allowed to vote. An inauspicious start.
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Coulter's tweet should probably have just cut to the chase and said, “Latinos shouldn't be allowed to vote.” No one was fooled by her couching it in terms of grandparents, particularly because of the racial history of the “grandfather clause” in American politics.
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