I'm so glad FR is actually returning to being a Conservative/Republican site. Articles like this are too rare around here these days.
It's still a conservative site. The nutball Buchananites who have been lurking silently in the shadows for so long just waiting to leap on a "we told you so" opportunity have just been temporarily emboldened by the immigration debate. Alas their absolutist voices will again fall silent one day soon, but I fear not before doing grievous harm to the party and the president. But as extremists always do, they'll remain in the shadowlands forever marginalized without power or voice and will ultimately not impact a thing. They will remain on the political periphery until the next opportunity to raise their shrill and intolerant voices presents itself again. And then once their tide again receeds which will come largely through having delegitimized themselves because of the harshness of their rhetoric and chauvenism, the adults can once again get back to the hard work of governance and carrying on a thinking debate as opposed to a purely visceral one.
Amen! ! ! !