Exactly, it’s insane. But that kind of thinking is very widespread among older conservatives. Especially older conservatives who have little experience living in an area of high immigration.
We have now the strange phenomenon where Trump was elected President basically on Pat Buchanan’s platform but older conservatives who oppose those kinds of paleocon views got on the Trump train late and are now cheering every time Trump moves away from the positions he campaigned on.
Unfortunately, we may see more of this in the future as Jared and Ivanka start to hold more sway over Trump as advisors than the Bannon and Miller wing of his cabinet. I hope I'm wrong, but we've already seen Trump adopt a softer line on "Dreamers."
Exactly, it’s insane. But that kind of thinking is very widespread among older conservatives. Especially older conservatives who have little experience living in an area of high immigration.
Elite conservatives who idealize Hispanics as "entrepreneurial conservatives" remind me of "black is beautiful" college campus radicals from the 60's and 70's, most of whom, as children of privilege, probably didn't have a single black person in their social circle. They're delusional fools in love with an idealized myth, not with anyone or anything in reality.