Why is it so all fired necessary to build a bloody wall and actually deport 11 million people who are already here?
To make America white again, says PK, making an accusation at once hyperbolic and boringly routine for Democrats.
But even apart from that, not every goal, laudable or not, is achievable by any acceptable means.
In my estimation, Hispanics are neither culturally so alien nor racially so hostile - the nonwhites among them - for that to overcome humanitarian reluctance in the face of so vast, expensive, debasing, and cruel a project of ethnic cleansing.
It is not only his rhetoric and style that suggest too much of the fascist and too much of the ethno-nationalist in The Donald.
Add this to his blithe and dangerous contempt for the separation of powers, for the absolute right of many other officials to refuse the president's bidding, and it's all rather menacing.
On the other hand, do not liberal justices presume to rewrite the constitution?
Did not Truman usurp the power to choose to go to war?
Did he not occupy an industry's factories, forcing them to stay open and operating in defiance of the supremes?
And yet, none of these hints of brimstone seem quite so menacing as Trump.
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