Demonizing Immigrants
I’ve posted several items about anti-immigration politics. And immigrant-bashing clearly is the strategy of at least one wing of the Republican Party.
It may work. Enough voters may be xenophobic enough – or even racist enough – to buy it.
But here is a history prediction: In decades to come (maybe even sooner), Republicans will be just as ashamed of what they are doing now as they are of their defense of legal segregation in the 1950s.
Even Jesse Helms won’t admit today what he believed then.
I believe that down the road a lot more Republicans will be trying to rewrite today’s history.
Demonizing Immigrants
I’ve posted several items about anti-immigration politics. And immigrant-bashing clearly is the strategy of at least one wing of the Republican Party.
It may work. Enough voters may be xenophobic enough – or even racist enough – to buy it.
But here is a history prediction: In decades to come (maybe even sooner), Republicans will be just as ashamed of what they are doing now as they are of their defense of legal segregation in the 1950s.
Even Jesse Helms won’t admit today what he believed then.
I believe that down the road a lot more Republicans will be trying to rewrite today’s history.