https://nytimes.com/opinion/columnists/donald-trump-election
You can’t defeat an opponent if you refuse to understand what makes him formidable.
Arguably the single most important geopolitical fact of the century is the mass migration of people from south to north and east to west, causing tectonic demographic, cultural, economic, and ultimately political shifts.
Trump understood this from the start of his presidential candidacy in 2015, the same year Europe was overwhelmed by a largely uncontrolled migration from the Middle East and Africa. As he said the following year, “A nation without borders is not a nation at all. We must have a wall. The rule of law matters!”
Many of Trump’s opponents refuse to see virtually unchecked migration as a problem for the West at all. Some of them see it as an opportunity to demonstrate their humanitarianism. Others look at it as an inexhaustible source of cheap labor. They also have the habit of denouncing those who disagree with them as racists. But enforcing control at the border — whether through a wall, a fence, or some other mechanism — isn’t racism. It’s a basic requirement of statehood and peoplehood, which any nation has an obligation to protect and cherish.
Only now, as the consequences of Biden’s lackadaisical approach to mass migration have become depressingly obvious on the sidewalks and in the shelters and public schools of liberal cities like New York and Chicago, are Trump’s opponents on this issue beginning to see the point.
The second big thing Trump got right was about the broad directio…
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Climate driven mass migration is just getting started. It will go up by orders of magnitude as the century moves toward the climate tipping point. The United States and every other western democracy will quite simply be erased by it unless they take steps now to protect themselves. Along with the rising sea levels, there will be a corresponding rise in the levels of migrants seeking safety, the rule of law, and a working economic system, all of which they will destroy if allowed unfettered immigration rights. The United States is the proximate cause of its own problems in this regard and… Read more
@P0pulistQuokkaDemocrat4mos4MO
Actually, Biden has continued Trump's policies on immigration and in certain aspects are tougher than Trump's.
@9CJ6CB64mos4MO
Ironically, that’s true, he hasn’t torn down said wall, and I can see why people would want one, but I think we need to work on regulating how it works rather than if they can come.
Trump is a candidate who represents grievance as opposed to a candidate who espouses hope.His base, mostly conservative Republicans,want to turn back the clock to a time when the country was whiter, male dominated, and pesky problems like climate change did not exist.He and his minions voice the last gasp of the last century.They may try to turn the clock back-it won’t work! Diversity is here to stay, women will have power including the right to health choices,and climate change will continue to uproot our lives!
@RightsGrizzlyLibertarian4mos4MO
All presidents get too much credit for things that go badly or well.
Biden is not directly responsible for gas prices being lower, for unemployment being low, or for inflation coming down. He IS responsible for some bills he has passed that WILL and ARE impacting some of these things.
Similarly, Trump was not directly responsible for most of the economic ups and downs that happened on his watch.
@9CJ6CB64mos4MO
Though, Trump is directly responsible for the degradation of corporate regulations, causing a problem for us later on.
@ISIDEWITH4mos4MO
In what ways might a tough stance on immigration be a matter of national identity rather than racism, from your point of view?
@9CJ6CB64mos4MO
Does an algorithm write these questions or does the writer?
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