Awarded Song of the Year at Sunday night’s Grammys, ‘Wildflower’ singer Billie Eilish forwent the customary shout-outs to manager, agent and God (in that order) to condemn Donald Trump’s immigration enforcement. The 24-year-old announced that ‘no one is illegal on stolen land’, rambled for a few solipsistic sentences (‘I just feel really hopeful in this room… our voices really do matter’), before concluding with: ‘Fuck Ice.’ Safe to say the Gettysburg Address isn’t getting knocked off its perch any time soon.

Airhead celebrity inarticulately repeats fashionable views heard on TikTok — stunning and brave, no doubt, but hardly original. ‘No one is illegal’ has become a standard rhetorical trick in the debate over illegal immigration, and if you want to have some fun I suggest asking if that applies to Israeli settlers living in the West Bank. Be prepared for your green-haired interlocutor to leap from ‘it’s all just lines on a map’ to a sudden zeal for national borders that even Pat Buchanan would deem a bit intense.

Also, a point we have to keep going over: the land upon which........

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