Conrad Black writing at NRO

A very interesting pro-Trump take on developments in the US election.

Against the grain of agitprop on all sides, he sees Trump as a moderate Republican leader and compares him with Eisenhower, as some others did much earlier in the primary season.

Not with George Wallace, though he is much more like the segregationist Democrat than like IKE, in my view.

CB seems particularly sympathetic toward getting serious about immigration.

Thing is, white trash and other rabble apart, fertility among American women is so far down that the country as a whole cannot keep up its current population on its own.

And that does indeed, as Pat Buchanan and many others have noted, put particular strain on funding of entitlements and other programs of the welfare state.

Overall, it's a problem of excess fertility at the bottom of the social pyramid (where children don't grow up and go to work but grow up and go to prison) and a considerable shortfall everywhere above that.

Ideally, the solution is to be found in that same, Eisenhower-ish middle Black thinks Il Duce occupies, requiring policies aimed at diminishing the fecundity of the underclass of thugs, drug addicts, and unemployables while enhancing the fertility of women of the better sort with things like family leave, day care, larger tax breaks for families (not single mom's) raising kids, and so on.

But that could be no more than a pipe dream, so profoundly does the left have its heart set on the irreversible demographic overthrow of white America.

A goal that positively requires mass nonwhite immigration, a demographic explosion among the underclass, and the abandonment of maternity by the white women of the country.

It is of course a ludicrous canard that Trump is literally a fascist.

Those who call Trump a fascist, as the egregious Bob Woodward did a few weeks ago, should remember what a fascist is. 

I was asked, on the flagship British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) news-comment program Newsnight three weeks ago, if Trump were not a Mussolini. 

I gently replied that Trump “doesn’t dress his followers in black shirts, march on the capital, murder his opponents, and is unlikely to repeal democracy, invade Ethiopia, stab Britain and France in the back, turn his country into a vassal state of foreign Nazism, or be apprehended in a German-army uniform fleeing his country and be shot and hung upside-down in a gas station.” 

The calming effect on my overwrought questioner was momentary.

Yes, but.

But what?

Deport 11 million people?

Somehow force Mexico to build a wall?

Not to mention his threats, bluster, lies, bullying, contempt for the separation of powers and lawful, constitutional processes, disdain for the autonomy and integrity of the political parties and their chosen manners of candidate selection, and reported personal admiration for Mussolini and for Hitler's speeches.

Surely enough to make use of the title "Il Duce" uncomfortably apt?