Mark Krikorian writes this morning at NationalReview.com that contrary to establishment “conservatives” including Charles Krauthammer, George Will and Fred Barnes who warn that Donald Trump poses a threat to the GOP, the true long-term problem facing conservatism is immigration: “… if mass legal immigration is permitted to continue, the Right is finished regardless of what Trump does or says.”
“If the federal government continues to operate at its current pace — about 1 million green cards issued per year — it will create nearly 15 million potential new voters over the next two decades, disproportionately liberal, as I will explain below.” Krikorian notes that an amnesty bill would roughly double that number.
“…survey after survey after survey hammers the point home: Immigration increases the electoral power of the Left.” Surveys consistently show immigrants and their children favor affirmative action, bigger government, more gun control, and other liberal policies. Krikorian explains why: “… they tend to come from countries where government plays a larger role than here; they tend to settle in urban areas with left-wing political cultures; and they disproportionately benefit from liberal policies such as expansive welfare and affirmative action.”
Read the rest here: http://www.nationalreview.com/article/423288/real-threat-conservatism-isnt-trump-mark-krikorian
Posted 8/31/15 by Andrew Lewis