“It’s All Very Fragile”—Trump Is Right. The Country Is Coming Apart. And Immigration Is A Reason

Peter Brimelow writes: VDARE.com does not endorse candidates and our sole interest is whether they advance the cause of patriotic immigration reform.

On the eve of the 2020 election, I posted A Long Farewell To Donald Trump, Immigration Patriot. And Thanks.

(The thanks were for that great night of November 8, 2016. I quoted Chesterton’s The Donkey:

Fools! For I also had my hour;
One far fierce hour and sweet:
There was a shout about my ears,
And palms before my feet.)

But I also said that I and all immigration patriots had to face a sad fact: The time has come to move on. This was because, despite significant administrative achievements, Trump had not even attempted to legislate cuts in legal immigration and, in fact, had even begun to deny that he ever wanted to cut it.

On the evidence of Trump’s announcement tonight, that’s still the case. His speech contained no mention of legal immigration, let alone the wage-boosting immigration moratorium implied in his great, much-missed August 15, 2015 Position Paper [Immigration Reform That Will Make America Great Again, PDF] or the abolition of birthright citizenship etc. And no zingers about Mexico not sending its best.

So the way is still clear for someone (FL Governor Ron DeSantis?) to outflank Trump on the issue.

But it’s hard to see how DeSantis can explain that to ¡Jeb Bush! and Paul Ryan, both of whom have endorsed him.

And who knows with Trump? He’s not a normal candidate. He’s surprised us before.

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