Chaim Amalek writes: The American People have failed to support Ted Cruz. What if it turns out that having Ted Cruz in the race and as nominee was akin to the one virtuous man in Sodom whose existence would have led God to spare that city?
* That’s what I’ve been saying. We’ll all be consumed by balls of fire with an adulterous man leading us.
* It’ll be the New York Post vs. the New York Daily News.
* Who does the GOP belong to? For years the big donor class and the think-tankers lazily thought it was theirs to play with. They ignored identity. They ignored tribes. The Democrats increasingly became an alliance of the upper and lower strata against the middle. The Republican Party was and is really only a vehicle for the kind of middle American whose ancestors came from America’s founding stock, supplemented by pre-WWI European immigrants. That rage Trump tapped into was always there, and while the Beltway elite exploited it, they directed it for their own purposes.
* Are the descendents of today’s American middle class destined to become a stupid fermenting mass of tens of millions of desperately proletarianized working animals who are at best permitted to chew their cud before slaughter?
* I was paraphrasing and adapting language from Goebbel’s 1945 essay in Das Riech, “The Year 2000”. Specifically, the phrase “stupid fermenting mass” (which may have originated with someone else). Concerning which, some of us are that already, with more to be reduced to that level in the future.
* Inside of every American is a proletariat waiting to get out.
* George Walker Bush liberated mine.
* In his column today Los Angeles Times writer George Skelton asks how Trump could get to the doorstep of becoming the presidential nominee of the Republican party without Skelton ONCE mentioning immigration or the plight of the white working class. What on God’s earth does Skelton think all these people are mad about?
* If Donald Trump adopts these two ideas, game over – he becomes our next President. As someone posted on Reddit:
Premise: The country is full, and immigration should not drive population growth. So….
1. BALANCED IMMIGRATION. The United States should limit the number of immigrants it takes in from any given country to the number of Americans that country took in from the US over the previous year. In other words, on a country by country basis, immigration=emigration, and there is population balance. How would it work? If 100,000 American citizens say “screw America, I want to live in Pakistan” and are accepted as immigrants by Pakistan in 2017, then America would take in up to 100,000 Pakistani immigrants in 2018. If not many Americans immigrate to Pakistan (or Israel or Sweden – no need to play favorites) then not many Pakistanis would be accepted in exchange. Fair is fair, and who can oppose that? No need for any invidious discussions of the merits of this group versus that group. Just fairness and balance.
Premise: The Illegals have got to go. Also, increasing the minimum wage lowers demand for labor, so….
2. Raise the minimum wage due illegal alien labor to $75/hour. Collectible ONLY when the illegal alien leaves the US to wherever. We could even incentivize our vast army of under- and unemployed lawyers to help them collect by giving them a third of the cut. Plenty incentive for them to leave and screw over the greedy, unpatriotic businesses that hired them in the first place, and plenty of disincentive on the part of business to hire them going forward. The end result would be massive self-deportation of illegals.
I don’t see how even progressive, liberal folk could object to either of these ideas. Liberals used to believe in “zero population growth” and many still do. And who would begrudge an illegal alien a working minimum wage of $75/hour? Not I!
If Donald Trump incorporates these ideas into his immigration platform, then Donald Trump becomes President of the United States of America.
* A Stanford business school lecturer explains why tens of millions of Americans support Trump: “All I know about Mr. Trump’s America is that it will have a huge wall and new trade deals…. He threatens a global trade war while I am a free trader. ….He has supported single payer health care reform. He boasts that he would order firm leaders to build their factories in the U.S. and then threatens to punish them if they do not. …. I have yet to see an instance of a policy view from him consistent with free market capitalism and limited government intervention in the economy.” All of this sounds pretty good to the scores of millions of American citizens who have been screwed over by limitless immigration, open borders, free trade, and globalism.
* Neoconservatism succeeded as a reaction against Democratic/liberal vacillation in the face of the Soviet/Bolshevik threat of the seventies, our defeat in SE Asia in 1975, and the national shame inflicted on us by the Iranians in 1979. Absent all that, what do they think attracted people to them, their devotion to the ideas of Ayn Rand and low taxes for Wall Streeters?
* Whether you believe this is happening (it is) due to human activity or not (and this point isn’t so clear), for most Americans, global warming is not high on the list of things to worry about. Finding or keeping a job, paying for health insurance and medical care, finding good, affordable schools for one’s progeny and so forth rank much, much higher on the list of things to worry about. In sort, fretting over global warming is a rich man’s sport. And it does not help any that for most Americans, global warming has been experienced not as hotter summers but as milder winters, which for most people is a good trade.
