“I haven’t abandoned my support of American principles at all.
I have abandoned my support of their rights as human beings.”
Those two statements are in direct contradiction... unless your idea of “American principles” is very different from mine. You know, believing that ALL men are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights.
What I believe is what I told you.
Some of those men forfeited their rights.
That is the path they chose, and they will get the fate that they deserve.