A broken analog clock is momentarily correct twice a day. Speaking in Europe, Hillary Clinton actually said something with which I agree, at least in part. The Guardian (U.S. edition) has the story.
While mouthing the usual PC pieties about poor refugees, she warned European center-left politicians that welcoming waves of refugees creates an opening for populist opponents ... as for instance Trump here and the AfD in Germany. Her point: political survival requires politicians to back “control the borders” policies in order to achieve electoral success.
Implicit in her message was that she learned this the hard way, by losing to someone with such a message. Her pieties are bleeding heart nonsense, but her political advice is spot on. People don’t want to be overrun by odd foreigners and will vote for candidates who understand and share that view.
I wonder if she will have the same message for Democrat colleagues in the States? It could be a hard sell here, where importing future Democrat voters while frantically virtue signalling feels like a winning combination to those my late father called “parlor pinks” and we now call “progressives.”
