* In 1992, we had Buchanan and Perot. Disdained by the powerful, and regrettably defeated.
Now we have the best of those two men in one.
The Democrats have lost the monopoly on identity politics.
* What is interesting is that the Democrats are perfectly comfortable assembling a coalition that is fifty percent plus one. I suppose it is because if you are the spoils party you don’t want more than what is necessary on your side since it splits up the pie into too many pieces.
The GOP acts like fifty percent plus one is a loser. America First if pushed correctly could easily get the necessary numbers to win. We don’t need the entire electorate.
* Only a tiny minority of Americans have ever heard of any controversy about
“America First”.
An even smaller fraction actually have a problem with it.
On its face, it is an obvious position for US
to take both domestically and internationally and one most Americans intuitively agree with.
It is a winner for Trump.
I wonder if Trump is aware of its pedigree?
* The lesson is clear: we need another McCain or Romney. The “keeping one eye at democrats to see if they approve” method just hasn’t been tried sufficiently enough.
* Democratic operative’s response to Trump wrapping up the nomination:
The country will be majority people of color in less than three decades.The GOP's response to that is to select Donald Trump as its nominee.
— Neera Tanden (@neeratanden) May 4, 2016
* Americans vs America does personalize it.
It also suggests there is no animus against immigrants who are legal(citizens), many of whom must be against the wanton disregard for the law that has occurred for past few decades.
* I don’t get this hatred directed against the America First movement.
Also, does anyone ever notice that taking an anti-war stance is only celebrated when liberals do it? When liberals are against a war, it is because they are good people who don’t want others to suffer. But when conservatives are against a war, it is because they are selfish people who don’t care that others are suffering.
* Just as majority white America had no problem choosing a black man as President, I’m sure that majority people of color America will have no problem choosing white men to lead them. Neera really gives me comfort that nonwhites will run this country in a colorblind fashion.
Methinks Ned, Jon, Neera, etc. doth protest too much. If they have nothing to worry about from that horrible awful racis’ Trump, why do they sound worried?
* I pray that the Democrats keep pushing sex politics, open borders, foreign wars, and the coalition of the fringes.
I pray that Bernie keeps running and winning the People’s votes.
I pray that Hillary wields her Ninja superdelegates and wins the nomination.
And most of all I pray that the Dems and Pubs explode into a billion scintillating shards.
The bigger and sooner the crash, the better.
* Why not “Americans First” instead of “America First?”
* That’s genius. Hope Trump takes that idea.
Related, Dougherty on America First:
Interesting and pretty convincing defense of the America First movement from @michaelbd https://t.co/f3wZeQTgi5
— Timothy B. Lee (@binarybits) May 5, 2016
* And as the white vote becomes useless, so will the infrastructure that whites built and maintain. See Detroit.
* Dave, isn’t it amazing that she mentions three decades? That is a long time. Yes, I know it appears to be baked into our future cake, but after possibly the largest mass migration in history, they still need another three decades to seal the deal.
Just think about what this implies. We have had fifty years of immigration liberalization for non-Europeans. And even after fifty years of record setting levels of immigration, this little lady reminds us to just wait for another three decades. Her implication is that we, meaning Europeans, will regret it.
If that is the case, which I think it is, then isn’t it strange that we still permit unprecedented levels of such immigration?
* Yes, it would be most fortunate if people of color become the majority. Look at all the model nation states and cities run by people of the color.
* My heart kvells when Hindu supremacists speak in explicitly racial terms. Their honesty is refreshing.
* The degree to which the American educated and professional classes doubled down on mass migration by non-white people to the US, and apparently to Europe as well, is really amazing. I just don’t remember the same degree of enthusiasm thirty years ago.
And there is absolutely no need for it. Populations everywhere are considerably (3x to 4x) higher than they were in the 1876-1924 years. The United States is settled and developed. There is no need to bring anyone in, and a considerable environmental argument against it. Advances in automation tech have made massive amounts of unskilled labor literally redundant.
But the thing is these people literally can’t imagine why anyone would object to mass migration. So they don’t understand Trump at all. They just assume he will lose in a landslide (very unlikely unless the election is stolen), or minimize this element of his appeal.
Its like someone in the Japanese elite in the 1930s not understanding why anyone would think something could go wrong with the attempt to turn China into a Japanese colony.
