* While Frum seems to “understand” the concerns of middle/working class Republicans, he doesn’t really seem to feel himself to be a part of them, or very sympathetic to them. Instead he seems to be treating them as just one more group whose wishes need to be considered, and gives their concerns – concerns about rewarding indolence, graft, and illegality – no moral weight whatsoever. The white middle class is only important because of their share of the voting base, not because their ideals are any better than those of Wall Street banksters, champagne socialists, or welfare queens.
Just as bad, and just plain damn naive, is how Frum seems to think that Wall Street support for open borders is just some minor policy point which they’d be willing to discard if “GOLLY GEE, THEY ONLY JUST UNDERSTOOD THE CONCERNS OF REGULAR AMERICANS A LITTLE BIT BETTER.”
That’s laughable. Wall Street has been committed to open borders since at least the George H. W. Bush Administration. Since the early 2000s that support has gone into overdrive. They are obsessed with driving down American wages, obsessed with increasing their customer base, and obsessed with disenfranchising the middle class Americans who have stymied them in the past. It is a central tenet of their ideology. It is non-negotiable. Does Frum really think that all the lies and betrayals on immigration by the elite, and the open, decade-long push by them to eliminate our borders, even in the face of extreme national security concerns, are just the result of some simple misunderstandings? He’s got to be high.
* Frum is of course a neocon and one of the main architects of W.’s “Axis of Evil” ideology in relation to the Iraq War. Before that, he wrote disparagingly about the ’90′s Conservatives (social/religious ones in particular) with dispassionate disdain.
The idea that Frum really cares about the immigration issue as it relates to the white working class is of course an illusion. But it does make for interesting reading in the Atlantic. In other words Frum, perhaps unintentionally has elevated some of the issues that Trump in particular has campaigned on for the past half year only now it is reaching the pages of polite and respectable opinion.
And remember, for the Atlantic, Frum’s article and its contents is simply shocking, daring, and totally outrageous.
* This second Frum article not nearly as good as the first one. The alternatives he lays out for the Republican party struck me as incoherent. Which is fine with me since I would like to see a new Republican party that I might actually support. I guess that makes me a Trumpian.
* Frum’s alternative #3 is for a somewhat Trumpian party. Does anyone know what happened to Frum? He was such a knee-jerk neocon for so long. I’m not sure if he’s changed his foreign policy views at all (a la Peter Beinart) but his domestic positions lately very lucid.
* I’m pretty sure he’s been consistent in his views (although more willing to compromise on foreign policy for immigration restriction now, since he recognizes that in the long term American support for Israel depends on preventing a non-white majority).
What’s changed is the libertarian-flavored alt-right has given way to the Trumpian alt-right, and thus people who once seemed like bitter enemies now are allies, and vice versa.
* All to get rid of WashingtonDC-Centric Obama-ism that a President Hillary will only build on such as super open borders and harsher Federal hate crime laws
One example being>>> Beefs about Jews and Israel and APAIC are being put on hold to get Trump elected. Alt-Right knows demographic tides and knows that Donald Trump is our last best chance to put much of Federally enforced Obama-ism into reverse drive.
When Trump trumpets that he will nullify hundreds of Obama’s executive orders on his first day in office, I do not doubt him!
