December 08, 2023, 06:39 PM
LEGAL IMMIGRATION FINALLY SURFACED IN THE FOURTH GOP DEBATE — at 6:22 when Governor Ron DeSantis attacked it (admittedly in the context of importing antisemitism, but whatever) and, perhaps more important, at 8:20 when Vivek Ramaswamy said:
…the Great Replacement Theory is not some grand rightwing conspiracy theory, but a basic statement of the Democratic Party’s platform.
Of course this is true, but who else has the courage to say it?
One hundred years ago, Lord Birkenhead, the then Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain and a piratical upwardly mobile product of the same socially marginal English school I attended some 75 years later, caused a great scandal by remarking in a Rectorial Address to the University of Glasgow that the world continued to offer glittering prizes to those with “stout hearts and sharp swords.”
By sheer imagination and courage, Vivek Ramaswamy is illustrating this principle. As of course does former Trump aide Stephen Miller [Tweet him], whom I continue to regard as America’s first Jewish president, cf. Britain’s Benjamin Disraeli.
Overall, my take as a thirty-year veteran of the Immigration Wars: As I said after the second GOP debate, the GOP has come a long way on immigration.
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