There’s no way that they’re going to stick their necks out for a nobody in Colorado. It’s not like this is helping Trump directly.
Depends on how much they’re on board with the whole “untrammeled dictatorship” gig.
The institution that was SCOTUS is not onboard. A decent fraction of the current nine incumbents seem fully bought & paid for, whether directly via secret cash or by congruent personal ideology.
We’ll see. But I am increasingly skeptical that SCOTUS has any constructive role to play is slowing the freight train to authoritarianism.
More “derr immigrants bad” from a guy whose ideal immigration policies would have resulted in his grandparents being murdered in a pogrom.
And of those achievements, at least two (“harness the atom” and “land on the moon”) relied on part on the work of immigrants, some of whom were asylum seekers (from Europe, but still . . .).
Which tribe did the others?
There are two things that Made America Great: Democracy, and immigration. Trump wants to end both.
So you’re saying that with no Trump, we can make America great again?
Certainly improve it.
“Make America Okayish Again.”
MAALLS
Make America A Little Less Shitty
The Gestapo says it’s unfair that Kilmar Abrego is allowed to make TikToks of himself lip-syncing to a hymn and they’re not even allowed to call him a criminal mastermind who belongs in a torture gulag.
It’s not hypocrisy, it’s just straight up racism. He’s not against immigration, he’s against immigration from places other than Europe.
I think it’s hypocrisy that comes from racism. Not only are the two not mutually exclusive, the one is often the cause of the other.
In this case, it’s hypocritical to demonize immigration when he is himself a child of immigrants. If he actually came out and said that he wants to stop immigration solely from non-European countries, then he’s being openly racist and no longer hypocritical.
We aren’t quite at the stage where politicians are comfortable to do that yet. I don’t think it’s far off, but they’re still trying to wear fig leaves and they’re pretending that they’re trying to stop drug smuggling, and protect jobs, and keep out criminals, etc. They’re not blatantly saying they want to make the country whiter, even though their actions are showing it.
I mean, he does say “third-world countries”, which isn’t far from saying “non-white”.
The concept of first, second, and third world, as they’re actually defined, didn’t make sense until the Cold War. But at the time of the major wave of Irish immigration, for instance, Ireland had most of the same connotations as we’d now assign to the “Third World”. Actually, that’s probably true of most of the waves of immigration we’ve had.
People who are prosperous (financially comfortable) are unlikely to want to emigrate, so the majority of those who are coming here are among the poor (whether they’re coming from first world, second world or third worl countries). But given the motivation to upend their lives to come here, many immigrants are motivated to improve their situation through hard work and saving.
More recently, and extending into the Cold War, that was also true of Italian immigrants and their descendants, as Sinatra and Martin were, much less Stephen Miller’s own family of Jewish immigrants
At that time, in fact, the Irish were despised, described, and treated with the same bigoted contempt and hostility as the current immigrants from “shithole countries.”
Epically if they were of the Catholic kind… Protestant Ulster Irish not so much.
See, for example:
Originally, Europe was the old world and America, specifically, the US was the new world. Once the perspective widened a bit, we had a third world to account for.
No connection. The First/Second/Third Worlds are the sides in the Cold War. The First World is the West (which is, of course, not all geographically western): The US, western Europe, Australia, Japan, and the rest of the US’s sphere of influence. The Second World was the countries that called themselves Communist: The USSR, China, and their spheres of influence. The Third World was everywhere else, the places where the US and USSR were competing to exert their influence.