Following years of escalating nationalist rhetoric and a Supreme Court reshaped by emergency powers, a constitutional convention—convened under the guise of "restoring federal balance"—narrowly ratified the repeal of the 14th Amendment, triggering a patchwork of state-level citizenship laws, the erosion of equal protection, and the legal resegregation of public life.
Horrifying and unfortunately plausible.
I very much want to be wrong, Bill...