Big surprise. The GOP blocked Trump’s border emergency declaration.
OK, 41 Republicans still voted for it. But 12 voted against it. That was more than enough. If the GOP had all 100 seats, you could be sure that at least 51 would have voted against it. This is because the GOP is all about making sympathetic noises to the base while giving the donors 100% what they want, and what they want is open borders.
Trump is just the signalling-to-base wing of the GOP.
Looking first at the GOP, Paul Ryan has been a complete shill for globohomo and open borders. In the small, waking moments of the night when his conscience troubled him, he no doubt allayed it by telling himself that all the invaders were inherently "small gubmint" Americans deep inside, and then went back to sleep. Ryan, with a majority in Senate and Congress, did nothing to pass a single piece of the immigration policies Trump ran on. In fact, he did the opposite, expanding catch and release and increasing work visas. Mitch McConnell ditto.
It is hard not to see these characters as total cynics, but the cuckservative mind is well versed in the ways of double-think and can generate the emotions of sincerity as it simulates what it believes to be "principles." But actual principles can also be prisons as we see with Rand Paul and others, who sincerely support Trump's policies but also sincerely feel his invocation of emergency powers is somehow constitutionally unsound. All that sincerity is killing us.
But perhaps the biggest part of this dispiriting picture for those on the Dissident Right is Trump himself. He has done almost nothing to squeeze the GOP to the point where its cozy donor interests rub up against its angry and confused base―at least not since the 2016 election!
If you need examples look at Trump's key appointments, like General John Kelly to the key position of White House Chief of Staff, and Neocon Mike Pompeo at the State Dept., among many others.
Pompeo failed to classify the Mexican drug cartel as a foreign terrorist organization, which was a sitting duck if they were serious about fighting the invasion. Nor has the State Dept. done much to attack the opioid crisis, which is tied up with the Mexican drug gangs and the open border.
Both Pompeo and Kelly have been tools of the Deep State, filling the State Dept. with the dregs of the Bush and Obama administrations or keeping them in place. One of Kelly's prime picks was putting Kirstjen Nielsen into the role of Secretary of Homeland Security. She is openly hostile to Trump's agenda and has been firing pro-wall people, and is now going after Lee Francis Cisna, one of the few good people in the administration on immigration. As for Trump's legislative director, the first one, Marc Short was a Koch brothers tool and part of the Never Trump campaign, yet he was in that vital position for a year and a half before going to work for Mike Pence, another vital position.
Also, what about the fact that the judiciary is overriding our democracy, and the state and city governments seizing federal prerogatives? See any resistance there from Trump? The 9th Circuit Court is running rampant, as are the sanctuary cities. Amnesty is fact on the ground.
The best analogy for this is that Trump is trying to push for immigration restriction―or reform if you prefer that word―with piece of string instead of a stick.
Instead of putting reliable people into key positions to push the anti-immigration agenda, Trump has instead staffed them with heel-dragging saboteurs. Then he complains that the Swamp is stifling him. It is hard to see this any other way than Trump is the swamp crying out as it strikes you.
The short take from all this is that nationalism cannot be implicit. It has to be explicit. While democracy dies in darkness, Nationalism just needs to be put in the shade a bit.
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OK, 41 Republicans still voted for it. But 12 voted against it. That was more than enough. If the GOP had all 100 seats, you could be sure that at least 51 would have voted against it. This is because the GOP is all about making sympathetic noises to the base while giving the donors 100% what they want, and what they want is open borders.
Trump is just the signalling-to-base wing of the GOP.
Looking first at the GOP, Paul Ryan has been a complete shill for globohomo and open borders. In the small, waking moments of the night when his conscience troubled him, he no doubt allayed it by telling himself that all the invaders were inherently "small gubmint" Americans deep inside, and then went back to sleep. Ryan, with a majority in Senate and Congress, did nothing to pass a single piece of the immigration policies Trump ran on. In fact, he did the opposite, expanding catch and release and increasing work visas. Mitch McConnell ditto.
It is hard not to see these characters as total cynics, but the cuckservative mind is well versed in the ways of double-think and can generate the emotions of sincerity as it simulates what it believes to be "principles." But actual principles can also be prisons as we see with Rand Paul and others, who sincerely support Trump's policies but also sincerely feel his invocation of emergency powers is somehow constitutionally unsound. All that sincerity is killing us.
But perhaps the biggest part of this dispiriting picture for those on the Dissident Right is Trump himself. He has done almost nothing to squeeze the GOP to the point where its cozy donor interests rub up against its angry and confused base―at least not since the 2016 election!
If you need examples look at Trump's key appointments, like General John Kelly to the key position of White House Chief of Staff, and Neocon Mike Pompeo at the State Dept., among many others.
Pompeo failed to classify the Mexican drug cartel as a foreign terrorist organization, which was a sitting duck if they were serious about fighting the invasion. Nor has the State Dept. done much to attack the opioid crisis, which is tied up with the Mexican drug gangs and the open border.
Both Pompeo and Kelly have been tools of the Deep State, filling the State Dept. with the dregs of the Bush and Obama administrations or keeping them in place. One of Kelly's prime picks was putting Kirstjen Nielsen into the role of Secretary of Homeland Security. She is openly hostile to Trump's agenda and has been firing pro-wall people, and is now going after Lee Francis Cisna, one of the few good people in the administration on immigration. As for Trump's legislative director, the first one, Marc Short was a Koch brothers tool and part of the Never Trump campaign, yet he was in that vital position for a year and a half before going to work for Mike Pence, another vital position.
Also, what about the fact that the judiciary is overriding our democracy, and the state and city governments seizing federal prerogatives? See any resistance there from Trump? The 9th Circuit Court is running rampant, as are the sanctuary cities. Amnesty is fact on the ground.
The best analogy for this is that Trump is trying to push for immigration restriction―or reform if you prefer that word―with piece of string instead of a stick.
Instead of putting reliable people into key positions to push the anti-immigration agenda, Trump has instead staffed them with heel-dragging saboteurs. Then he complains that the Swamp is stifling him. It is hard to see this any other way than Trump is the swamp crying out as it strikes you.
The short take from all this is that nationalism cannot be implicit. It has to be explicit. While democracy dies in darkness, Nationalism just needs to be put in the shade a bit.
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