Friday, August 21, 2015

You're Not Allowed to Want That

Ben Domenech writes an interesting analysis of the Trump movement for The Federalist, here is the money quote:
A sizable portion of the country is saying, “We want to stop illegal immigration,” and both parties are telling them, in essence, “You’re not allowed to want that.”

If a large – sorry, yuge – portion of the country wants existing bipartisan immigration laws to be enforced, and one party tells them “Yes,” but means “No,” and the other party tells them, “No” but means “You’re a racist,” then it’s only a matter of time before some disruptor is going to emerge to call them out for their game.
You could argue the two parties' big tents are shredding, resulting in the Trump and Sanders phenomena.