Posted on 01/20/2016 6:36:17 PM PST by ObamahatesPACoal
This is not a post about being right.
Politics is not just about being right and it never has been. The way things work in a representative democracy is that you not only have to BE right, you have to convince a critical mass of other people in this country that you are right, otherwise being right will do you no good. Is it right to shut down the federal Department of Education? Probably.
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Personally, I’m glad Eric Cantor lost. Personally, although I’m broadly in favor of immigration reform (depending on the particulars), I think it would be suicide to take the matter up at the present time. That doesn’t change the fact that a lot of what I’m seeing right now from people who feel more or less the same way (albeit with considerably more gusto) is counterproductive and harmful to the movement as a whole, even if it is effective at winning a low-turnout Congressional primary against an incumbent who alienated his constituency.
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A poor example of that would be this piece by my colleague Daniel Horowitz which addresses at least arguably a real issue, but cloaked in so much rhetoric that rises immediately to the level of 11 that it gives the very clear impression that Central American kids who cross the border without their parents should be left to starve. Calling supporters of immigration reform by Spanish names as an insult as some did a la “Jorge Arbusto†or “Juan McCain†is – let’s say less than helpful insensitivity at best and a “tell†of pretty strong racial biases at worst.
Another Leftist at Redstate?
Mexican is not a race, and neither is “hispanic”.
The former is a nationality and the latter a linguistic cohort.
So is Rethug rhetoric. So is white male rhetoric. People wouldn’t be using the anti-immigration rhetoric if we had a more sane immigration policy. It’s about what is best for the country and safety and wellbeing of the people, not what is best for the party elders.
Someone send him the butt hurt complaint form.
Another BS article on immigration cloaked in PC.
I’m through with PC when discussing the disaster of our immigration policy.
That would be Red Star
Since America is a Constitutional Republic I can't figure out what he is writing about.
Red State is the absolute, utter worst.
Nothing but infuriatingly repulsive RINO conservative gaslighting and helter skelter.
I really can’t stomach this Leon guy! He’s turning REDSTATE into the National Review. His hatred of TRUMP is pathological.
That's a great recommendation for Trump. He was the only one from whom they took back their previously issued invitation. Why? Because they realized the truth. Trump is the ONLY non-establishment, non-Political Class, non-Washington-insider. He was the only candidate diametrically opposed to Red State Rino bs like this linked article. Notice they welcomed everyone else...
Leon Wolf needs a throatpunch.
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