The public was frightened into siding with those who fear brown-skinned people.
You chalk up opposition to the port deal as fear of "brown-skinned people"? My goodness. That's a level of mendacity not even the water-carriers for "arab-phobia" were willing to stoop to.
It is precisely this kind of un-serious, indeed perfectly frivolous, argumentation that has won the proponents of the port deal the scorn of the so-called "little people."
Talk about a Golden Oldie- you used to have to buy a copy of The Progressive or some other hard left rag to see race-baiting like you're using.