So far, Will and Brooks have been right.
Most of the conservatives who are freaking out now about immigration are very late to really caring about the issue. It never stopped them from supporting open borders politicians before. I’d like to think that these people have had a genuine conversion, but I have no faith in them.
Where were they back in the 90’s when the situation was not as desperate and many people in the establishment were open to reducing immigration if that’s what people really wanted? Go back and read some establishment writing on immigration from that era. The Atlantic magazine had a sympathetic article about the anti-immigration novel Camp Of The Saints in 1994 and the New York Times editorialized against amnesty as recently as 2000. Congressional Democrats even had a plan to reduce immigration in the late 90’s, but Gingrich, may he burn in hell forever, never moved on immigration legislation. Democrats were terrified the GOP would use immigration against them and were ready to go along with drastically reducing legal immigration as well as cracking down on illegals.
For starters, everyone needs to acknowledge that Pat Buchanan was right and that the neocons who purged him from mainstream conservative movement are scum who hate America. I won’t trust anyone who balks at affirming that.
Let’s hope conservatives have learned a lesson for once.
Troll much?