This week's Inquirer: Ignoring grammar makes it easier to weaponize the Constitution

It's time to brush up on the difference between 'clause' and 'phrase,' or we'll end up getting snowed by manipulative politicians who come up with their own constitutional interpretations.

Grammar is boring. When you hear about a clause, it’s tempting to think less about English lessons and more about Santa.

Unfortunately you’ll have to get over that boredom if we want to slow our country’s seemingly inexorable march toward Christian fascism.

Because if Congresswoman Lauren Boebert is focused on clauses vs. phrases, and which one appears where, we’d better be too.

The hyperconservative firebrand, who handily won last week’s Republican primary in Colorado, just a few days earlier told a church congregation, “I’m tired of this ‘separation of church and state’ junk,” adding that, “It was not in the Constitution, it was in a stinking letter and it means nothing like what they say it does.”

Read the full column here.