“Does this guy have any idea as to the anger Americans have over illegal immigration? “
Lol. Michael doesn’t care- he’ll just tell you that you’re a nativist and a xenophobe.
Medved feels so strongly about mass immigration from the third world, legal as well as illegal, that he’s happy to give your neighborhood away to them. Not his neighborhood, he’s in the paradise of Whidbey Island and it will never be overrun by illegals. That’s for little people. And before that he lived near his old Lefty buds in the People’s Republic of Santa Monica. Like Whidbey Island another spot too rich for illegals.
Michael himself was on the hard left back in his college days. His “conversion” came when he realized that people on the Right were more useful than his isolationist pals on the commie left. But while he became a Republican he certainly didn’t give up all of his leftwing social values, like amnesty for illegals.
If you saw ‘Lord of the Rings’ you may remember Grima Wormtongue, the adviser to a king who weakened him by constantly whispering defeat into his ears. That’s Michael Medved. He used to whisper “there aren’t enough illegals to worry about”. When that stopped selling he switched to “there are so many illegals you must legalize them all”.
It’s just defeatism. He’s no longer trying to persuade his listeners that amnesty is a good thing because no one believes it. Now he’s just trying to get you to give up.
Medved has the politics of Jeb, and comes across as a combination of Peewee Herman and George Costanza’s mother.
He’s a reliable indicator of where the GOPe is at any given moment. Beyond that he’s only useful to remind yourself that you shouldn’t feel guilty for hating that kid in gym class all those years ago, because he’s probably still an annoying, snooty, condescending jerk who deserved every towel snap he got.