Mind if I cope by making substantive arguments that force you to engage in bad faith argumentation again?

This is why centrists lost the GOP. In your minds, you are avatars of reason, standing bravely against tribalism. In reality, you're dogmatic as hell and go to condescension, snarkiness, and arguments from authority at the drop of a hat.

As for 'fringe', it's ever so fringe that I try to preserve the status quo or promote citizenship as the standard for admission to critical government roles, despite providing a coherent rationale and it being the norm in the developed world. Next I'll insist on border security too! Raaaaaycist!