The first, by Karl Vick for Time, bemoans Trump's tough approach to illegal immigration as "not who we are." The second, by The Federalist's Mollie Hemingway, reports Economist/YouGov polling which shows that Trump's immigration policies are popular with a clear majority of Americans. Her article is summarized below.
- A Reckoning: What Kind of Country Are We?
- Trump's Immigration Policies Are Surprisingly Popular
Vick asks "what kind of country are we?" which is related to Obama's tiresome "that's not who we are" and "we're better than that." Hemingway's polling clearly shows that the Trump immigration policies are exactly who we are, that we are not 'better' than those policies, even a little.
We need to rub the runny noses of 'progressives' into the reality of who we Americans really are, and do it good and hard. Afterwards, they can decide whether "who we are" is something of which they can bring themselves to be a part ... or not. Trump's wall won't keep in people who want out.
