strategic-culture | Of
the three Trumpish heresies from bipartisan orthodoxy, this is the most
important. While for the establishment it ranks with foreign policy and
is closely tied to it (“Invade the world, invite the world”),
for Trump’s base is it head and shoulders above the other two. If not
for his pledge to build The Wall and make Mexico pay for it, Trump never
would have been the Republican nominee and won the presidency.
For
the past week the American media and political class have been in a
tizzy over precisely what scatological term Trump may have used in a
closed-door White House meeting over DACA (“Deferred Action on Childhood
Arrivals,” Obama’s so-called “Dreamers”) and immigration policy
generally, including funds to build The Wall. (There evidently is some
question of whether the second syllable was
“hole” or “house.”) Is this the worst word ever uttered in a non-public
meeting in the Oval Office? At least nobody claims Trump said whatever
it was he said like Lyndon Johnson, perched on the presidential throne.
Trump’s
real offense was less the word itself than its implication that certain
Countries ABCD are horrible places to live, while other Countries WXYZ
are quite the opposite. And since Countries ABCD are pretty much full of
black and brown people, and Countries WXYZ are almost exclusively the
abodes of white and yellow people, he’s a racist for noticing the
difference. Hence, the media and Trump’s critics’ frenzied repetition of
the R-word word, as though it were a sort of magical incantation that
at some point will cause him to crumble into dust.
There
are over seven and a half billion people inhabiting this orb of woe.
Probably somewhere in the range of 90 percent of them would dramatically
improve their lives if they left where they are and moved to the United
States. Aside from the clear benefit to the Democratic Party in
welcoming spanking new voters, how does it profit the American nation to
import mobs of impoverished and uneducated people to drag down wages,
especially in low-paying job categories, and to consume a
disproportionate share of public benefits?
Keep
in mind too that because a very high proportion of migrants in this
category would be considered “minorities” under US law, they and their
progeny would immediately qualify upon arrival for affirmative action
status in hiring and education. What kind of idiot country imports
foreigners and then discriminates in their favor against the natives?
For what purpose – to offset historical wrongs to which the newcomers
were never victim?
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