The Democratic Party’s radical leftward shift now threatens one of the Constitution’s clearest safeguards. 

Shifts once considered impossible — such as senior Republican voices defending Iran’s ballistic missile capabilities as “self-defense” or prominent voices on both sides downplaying Hamas — reveal how fast norms erode when ideological extremists seize control. The same purge that sidelined classical liberals and foreign-policy realists in favor of identity-driven socialists now points straight at Article II’s natural-born citizen requirement for the presidency.