vdare--2020-11-02--A Long Farewell To Donald Trump, Immigration Patriot. And Thanks.

See earlier : `` It Will Come To Blood '' —Reflections On The Left 's Anti-Trump Inauguration Tantrum January 22 , 2017 “ A long farewell to all my greatness !
” Cardinal Wolsey ’ s great but deeply tragic soliloquy in Shakespeare ’ s Henry VIII comes to my mind when contemplating President Donald J. Trump ’ s re-election bid .
I don ’ t have the slightest idea if Trump ’ s bid will succeed—and neither does anyone else .
( Patrick McDermott thinks that polls are understating Trump ’ s white vote by several points ) .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ exactly as four years ago , the heart-stopping courage of Trump ’ s come-from-behind closing campaign ( although he ’ s in this mess because he disregarded my explicit instructions to consolidate his white a.k.a .
American base ) .
And I certainly do believe that a Biden-Harris victory would result in an immediate Full Merkel—a treasonous drive to Elect A New People by drowning America with mass Third World immigration—which , at the least , won ’ t happen under Trump .
Nevertheless , whether Trump wins or loses , I and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ sad fact : the time has come to move on .
Which is not to say that Trump ’ s immigration achievements haven ’ t been significant .
Particularly incredible to me , since I ’ ve been advocating it for nearly three decades , the U.S. now quietly has a de facto immigration moratorium explicitly aimed at protecting American jobs .
No Year Has Seen Legal Immigration Cut Like the 2nd Half of FY 2020 , by David J. Bier , Cato.org , October 13 , 2020 .
Additionally , because of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and a very unTrumpian patient campaign of detailed regulatory changes affecting legal immigration , the immigrant workforce population has been falling for an unprecedented 13 months , beginning long before the Covid-19 pandemic .
And what VDARE.com has long denounced as the “ Refugee Racket ” has been practically eliminated , and with it the jobs of Leftist bureaucrats in the many “ charities ” that were taking taxpayer monies to import refugees and dump them on local welfare systems .
Even the columnist Michael Barone , a long-time immigration enthusiast whom VDARE.com @ @ @ @ @ @ @ But the problem : none of these achievements are the result of legislation .
They are the product of Executive Branch action and they can be reversed , albeit not always quickly , by a future Democrat Administration .
No patriotic immigration reform legislation was passed during the Trump Presidency , not even in 2017-2019 when the GOP controlled both the U.S. House and Senate .
Tellingly , none was even brought up for a vote .
This applies even to the RAISE Act , which would have reduced legal immigration modestly and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ It ’ s all too clear that there is still intense opposition to legal immigration reduction in the donor-driven GOP Establishment .
( Thus , unbelievably , the House GOP ’ s 2020 “ Commitment To America ” election platform didn ’ t mention immigration at all ) .
But why did Trump not push Congress harder ?
Why , for that matter , is he not campaigning on immigration now—for example , pointing out that the Democrats will junk his temporary immigration moratorium as soon as they can ?
Michael Barone noted @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , Trump has failed to emphasize his two signature 2016 issues : immigration and trade.
” Part of the reason : Trump ’ s re-election campaign , like his Administration , seems mostly to be run by conventional GOP Beltway apparatchiks , who have never given the immigration issue any thought at all .
Hence the Rove/ Bush-type clumsy pandering to minorities and their utter panic when faced with accusations of racism , which of course guarantees that the accusations continue to be made .
But it also seems to be the case @ @ @ @ @ @ @ has persuaded Trump to change his mind about cutting legal immigration , which before COVID-19 was running at some 652,000 a year .
[ Immigrant Population Growth Slows ‘ Trump Effect ’ likely explains slowdown , by Steven A. Camarota and Karen Zeigler , CIS.org , October 22 , 2020 ] I think the first time I became aware of this was when Trump ’ s mentioned it in a speech to CPAC in 2019 .
But he also told the New York Times ’ Julie Hirschfeld Davis and Michael D. Shear in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Wars that he hadn ’ t been aware the RAISE Act cut legal immigration .
And , more recently , in a 2020 WuFlu briefing he actually denied he ’ d ever wanted to cut it at all [ Remarks by President Trump and Members of the Coronavirus Task Force in Press Briefing , April 21 , 2020 ] .
He even appeared to allude to it when making a rare but important attack on Joe Biden for supporting Amnesty in the second Presidential debate .
( Of course Trump did indeed say @ @ @ @ @ @ @ fact , read carefully his great August 15 , 2015 Position Paper called for an immigration moratorium—but note we have to link to an archive.org version because the original has been purged from the Trump website ) .
[ Immigration Reform That Will Make America Great Again , The three core principles of Donald J. Trump 's immigration plan [ PDF ] ] And , in fact Jared Kushner ’ s immigration plan announced last summer , while proposing several sensible tweaks to the current shambles , does not directly reduce legal immigration @ @ @ @ @ @ @ this : the economy was booming and might have been harmed by labor shortages—although it was precisely those shortages that were causing American wages to be bid up after years of stagnation .
Maybe this rationale flattered Trump , who seemed inordinately proud of his boom .
Similarly , the recent flurry of SHOCK !
HORROR !
MSM reports about interesting things that Trump ’ s immigration consigliere ( and rumored Kushner courtier ) Stephen Miller thinks should be done in a Trump second term conspicuously do not include a massive cut in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ did mention ending Birthright Citizenship , as Trump promised in 2015 .
All by itself , this would dramatically slow , and perhaps defer indefinitely , the transformation of the American electorate .
And this is the point .
Ultimately the immigration issue is not about economics , but about politics—the politics of national survival .
The GOP/ Generic American Party can not for long hope to win national elections as its white a.k.a .
American base is driven into minority status by post-1965 immigration policy .
But it is under absolutely no @ @ @ @ @ @ @ especially as Democrats are openly gloating about benefitting from the immigration-driven Great Replacement ( unless white Americans Notice it , in which case it becomes a “ Conspiracy Theory ” ) .
To stop the GOP/ GAP/ Historic American Nation ’ s drift to demographic disaster , Trump needed to institutionalize his revolution by cutting non-white immigration , preferably by imposing an immigration moratorium .
We actually explained this to him 2017 by pointing to the failure of a similar conservative revolution : Canada To Trump : Heed Horrible Harper Warning !
But @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ’ s Trump , there ’ s hope .
He has , in the end , imposed a temporary immigration moratorium .
Significantly , Stephen Miller has been quoted as saying that lifting the moratorium is `` ’ entirely contingent ’ on governmental analysis that factors in the state of the job market.
” [ Trump adviser Stephen Miller reveals aggressive second-term immigration agenda , by Sahil Kapur , NBC , October 30 , 2020 ] That could be a long time .
And Trump could easily have another S**t Hole moment where @ @ @ @ @ @ @ conventional wisdom .
But if I had to guess right now , I ’ d say that Jared Kushner plans to install his wife as a “ kinder , gentler ” Trump in 2024 , which probably involves agitating for an Amnesty and running out the GOP ’ s demographic clock .
Certainly that would explain why he has reportedly encouraged his father-in-law to endorse Establishment Republicans ( Paul Ryan !
John McCain !
Mitt Romney ! )
against immigration patriot primary challengers—and to allow the destruction of immigration patriots like Jeff Sessions @ @ @ @ @ @ @ all of whom would have been vital in passing legislation cutting legal immigration .
But the American political system is very fertile .
Trump has put the immigration issue in play .
With or without a Trump second term , other political entrepreneurs will move into the niche—for example Matt Gaetz , Josh Hawley , Tom Cotton , and possibly Tucker Carlson .
And whatever happens , VDARE.com , with your help , will continue to fight to keep the concept of immigration patriotism in public debate .
Meanwhile , like so many @ @ @ @ @ @ @ I will always thank Donald Trump for the great night of November 8 , 2016 .
Although assailed with impending political dispossession , constant cultural humiliation and relentless Main Stream Media propaganda , we can still say with G.K Chesterton ’ s donkey : Fools !
For I also had my hour ; One far fierce hour and sweet : There was a shout about my ears , And palms before my feet .
Peter Brimelow [ Email him ] is the editor of VDARE.com .
His best-selling book , Alien Nation : @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Disaster , is now available in Kindle format .

See earlier: "It Will Come To Blood"—Reflections On The Left's Anti-Trump Inauguration Tantrum , January 22, 2017
“A long farewell to all my greatness!” Cardinal Wolsey’s great but deeply tragic soliloquy in Shakespeare’s Henry VIII comes to my mind when contemplating President Donald J. Trump’s re-election bid. I don’t have the slightest idea if Trump’s bid will succeed—and neither does anyone else. (Patrick McDermott thinks that polls are understating Trump’s white vote by several points.) But I am compelled to respect, exactly as four years ago, the heart-stopping courage of Trump’s come-from-behind closing campaign (although he’s in this mess because he disregarded my explicit instructions to consolidate his white a.k.a. American base). And I certainly do believe that a Biden-Harris victory would result in an immediate Full Merkel—a treasonous drive to Elect A New People by drowning America with mass Third World immigration—which, at the least, won’t happen under Trump. Nevertheless, whether Trump wins or loses, I and all immigration patriots have to face a sad fact: the time has come to move on.
Which is not to say that Trump’s immigration achievements haven’t been significant. Particularly incredible to me, since I’ve been advocating it for nearly three decades, the U.S. now quietly has a de facto immigration moratorium explicitly aimed at protecting American jobs.
No Year Has Seen Legal Immigration Cut Like the 2nd Half of FY 2020, by David J. Bier, Cato.org, October 13, 2020.
Additionally, because of the enforcement of laws against illegal immigration and a very unTrumpian patient campaign of detailed regulatory changes affecting legal immigration, the immigrant workforce population has been falling for an unprecedented 13 months, beginning long before the Covid-19 pandemic. And what VDARE.com has long denounced as the “Refugee Racket” has been practically eliminated, and with it the jobs of Leftist bureaucrats in the many “charities” that were taking taxpayer monies to import refugees and dump them on local welfare systems.
Even the columnist Michael Barone, a long-time immigration enthusiast whom VDARE.com has repeatedly criticized, acknowledges this:
[Trump] can claim that his new trade agreements and economic policies have produced income and wealth gains disproportionately favoring low-wage workers—something administrations of both parties have failed to achieve for a generation. And he can argue that his immigration policies—and the cooperation he has successfully wrested from Mexico—have prevented the surge of unskilled illegal immigrants which could easily resume the minute the networks call the election for Joe Biden. Both candidates' risky strategies, by Michael Barone, Northern Virginia Daily, October 24, 2020. (Emphasis added.)
But the problem: none of these achievements are the result of legislation. They are the product of Executive Branch action and they can be reversed, albeit not always quickly, by a future Democrat Administration.
No patriotic immigration reform legislation was passed during the Trump Presidency, not even in 2017-2019 when the GOP controlled both the U.S. House and Senate. Tellingly, none was even brought up for a vote. This applies even to the RAISE Act, which would have reduced legal immigration modestly and which Trump actually endorsed in 2017.
It’s all too clear that there is still intense opposition to legal immigration reduction in the donor-driven GOP Establishment. (Thus, unbelievably, the House GOP’s 2020 “Commitment To America” election platform didn’t mention immigration at all.)
But why did Trump not push Congress harder? Why, for that matter, is he not campaigning on immigration now—for example, pointing out that the Democrats will junk his temporary immigration moratorium as soon as they can?
Michael Barone noted this in his column too—“Astonishingly, Trump has failed to emphasize his two signature 2016 issues: immigration and trade.”
Part of the reason: Trump’s re-election campaign, like his Administration, seems mostly to be run by conventional GOP Beltway apparatchiks, who have never given the immigration issue any thought at all. Hence the Rove/ Bush-type clumsy pandering to minorities and their utter panic when faced with accusations of racism, which of course guarantees that the accusations continue to be made.
(Pathetically, the Trump campaign has released an ad showing 38 times Trump has denounced “white supremacy”—when it should be hitting back at the Democrat refusal to denounce, let alone prosecute, Communist rioters.)
But it also seems to be the case that somebody, perhaps Jared Kushner, has persuaded Trump to change his mind about cutting legal immigration, which before COVID-19 was running at some 652,000 a year. [Immigrant Population Growth Slows ‘Trump Effect’ likely explains slowdown, by Steven A. Camarota and Karen Zeigler, CIS.org, October 22, 2020]
I think the first time I became aware of this was when Trump mentioned it in a speech to CPAC in 2019. But he also told the New York Times’ Julie Hirschfeld Davis and Michael D. Shear in an interview for their 2019 book Border Wars that he hadn’t been aware the RAISE Act cut legal immigration. And, more recently, in a 2020 WuFlu briefing he actually denied he’d ever wanted to cut it at all [Remarks by President Trump and Members of the Coronavirus Task Force in Press Briefing, April 21, 2020]. He even appeared to allude to it when making a rare but important attack on Joe Biden for supporting Amnesty in the second Presidential debate.
(Of course Trump did indeed say he was going to cut legal immigration—in fact, read carefully his great August 15, 2015 Position Paper called for an immigration moratorium—but note we have to link to an archive.org version because the original has been purged from the Trump website: Immigration Reform That Will Make America Great Again, The three core principles of Donald J. Trump's immigration plan [PDF]).
And, in fact Jared Kushner’s immigration plan announced last summer, while proposing several sensible tweaks to the current shambles, does not directly reduce legal immigration at all.
The supposed rationale for this: the economy was booming and might have been harmed by labor shortages—although it was precisely those shortages that were causing American wages to be bid up after years of stagnation. Maybe this rationale flattered Trump, who seemed inordinately proud of his boom.
Similarly, the recent flurry of SHOCK! HORROR! MSM reports about interesting things that Trump’s immigration consigliere (and rumored Kushner courtier) Stephen Miller thinks should be done in a Trump second term conspicuously do not include a massive cut in legal immigration.
But one such story did mention ending Birthright Citizenship, as Trump promised in 2015. All by itself, this would dramatically slow, and perhaps defer indefinitely, the transformation of the American electorate.
And this is the point. Ultimately the immigration issue is not about economics, but about politics—the politics of national survival. The GOP/ Generic American Party cannot for long hope to win national elections as its white a.k.a. American base is driven into minority status by post-1965 immigration policy. But it is under absolutely no obligation passively to accept this policy, especially as Democrats are openly gloating about benefitting from the immigration-driven Great Replacement (unless white Americans Notice it, in which case it becomes a “Conspiracy Theory”).
To stop the GOP/ GAP/ Historic American Nation’s drift to demographic disaster, Trump needed to institutionalize his revolution by cutting non-white immigration, preferably by imposing an immigration moratorium. We actually explained this to him in 2017 by pointing to the failure of a similar conservative revolution: Canada To Trump: Heed Horrible Harper Warning! But apparently he was distracted.
Where there’s Trump, there’s hope. He has, in the end, imposed a temporary immigration moratorium. Significantly, Stephen Miller has been quoted as saying that lifting the moratorium is "’entirely contingent’ on governmental analysis that factors in the state of the job market.” [Trump adviser Stephen Miller reveals aggressive second-term immigration agenda, by Sahil Kapur, NBC, October 30, 2020]
That could be a long time. And Trump could easily have another S**t Hole moment where his instincts prevail over Washington D.C, conventional wisdom.
But if I had to guess right now, I’d say that Jared Kushner plans to install his wife as a “kinder, gentler” Trump in 2024, which probably involves agitating for an Amnesty and running out the GOP’s demographic clock. Certainly that would explain why he has reportedly encouraged his father-in-law to endorse Establishment Republicans (Paul Ryan! John McCain! Mitt Romney!) against immigration patriot primary challengers—and to allow the destruction of immigration patriots like Jeff Sessions, Kris Kobach and Steve King, all of whom would have been vital in passing legislation cutting legal immigration.
But the American political system is very fertile. Trump has put the immigration issue in play. With or without a Trump second term, other political entrepreneurs will move into the niche—for example Matt Gaetz, Josh Hawley, Tom Cotton, and possibly Tucker Carlson.
And whatever happens, VDARE.com, with your help, will continue to fight to keep the concept of immigration patriotism in public debate.
Meanwhile, like so many American patriots, I must say that I will always thank Donald Trump for that great night of November 8, 2016.
Although assailed with impending political dispossession, constant cultural humiliation and relentless Main Stream Media propaganda, we can still say with G.K Chesterton’s donkey:
Fools! For I also had my hour;
One far fierce hour and sweet:
There was a shout about my ears,
And palms before my feet.
Peter Brimelow [Email him] is the editor of VDARE.com. His best-selling book, Alien Nation: Common Sense About America’s Immigration Disaster, is now available in Kindle format.


vdare--2020-11-02--Biden Vs. Trump Donors: Facebook, Google, Harvard And Stanford Vs. NYPD And U.S. Marines

The Employees Who Gave Most to Trump and Biden By Jackie Gu November 2 , 2020 … Of the employers @ @ @ @ @ those whose employees tilted the most to Trump were the New York Police Department and @ @ @ @ @ almost 70 % of employees who made contributions to one of the two presidential campaigns @ @ @ @ @ employers with the greatest share of Biden donors were Facebook and the University of Washington @ @ @ @ @ U. of Colorado ] , with over 97 % of their donors giving to Biden @

From Bloomberg:
The Employees Who Gave Most to Trump and Biden
By Jackie Gu
November 2, 2020
… Of the employers included in this analysis, those whose employees tilted the most to Trump were the New York Police Department and the U.S. Marines, with almost 70% of employees who made contributions to one of the two presidential campaigns favoring the incumbent. The employers with the greatest share of Biden donors were Facebook and the University of Washington [I think they meant U. of Colorado], with over 97% of their donors giving to Biden:


vdare--2020-11-04--Charles Blow In NYT: Exit Polls Point To The Power Of White Patriarchy

From the New York Times opinion page : Exit Polls Point to the Power of White Patriarchy Some people who have historically been oppressed will stand with their oppressors .
It is obscene that the presidential race is too close to call at the time this column is published : Wednesday at 6:30 p.m. Eastern Standard Time .
After all that Donald Trump has done , all the misery he has caused , all the racism he has aroused , all the immigrant families he has destroyed , all the people who have left this life because of his mismanagement @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of the country voted to extend this horror show .
Let me be specific and explicit here : White people — both men and women — were the only group in which a majority voted for Trump , according to exit polls .
To be exact , nearly three out of every five white voters in America are Trump voters .
It is so unsettling to consider that many of our fellow countrymen and women are either racists or accommodate racists or acquiesce to racists .
But , that ’ s only part @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the exit polls .
… Finally , exit polls are just that , polls .
They can differ slightly from the validated voter data , as they did in 2016 .
All that said , I am still stunned .
A larger percentage of every racial minority voted for Trump this year than in 2016 .
Among Blacks and Hispanics , this percentage grew among both men and women , although men were more likely to vote for Trump than women .
Among Hispanics , the movements by sex were marginal and have @ @ @ @ @ @ @ presidential elections .
The fascinating story and movement are in the Black vote .
Black people vote overwhelmingly for Democratic candidates .
Black women vote more reliably Democratic than Black men — only 3 or 4 percent of Black women voted for the Republican candidate in 2008 , 2012 and 2016 .
However , Donald Trump doubled that number this year , winning 8 percent of Black women ’ s votes .
Black men on the other hand have been inching away from the Democrats in recent elections , and continued that drift @ @ @ @ @ @ @ 5 percent of Black men voted for John McCain ; in 2012 , 11 percent voted for Mitt Romney ; in 2016 , 13 percent voted for Trump ; and , this year 18 percent voted for Trump .
These men were specifically targeted by the Trump campaign , and that targeting may well have worked .
Democrats are going to have to pour some energy into specifics listening to and understanding these Black men .
They are still the least likely group of men to vote Republican , but this trend away @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
Not only did a majority of white men vote for Trump , so did a majority of white women .
In 2016 , exit polls also showed that a majority of white women had done so , but later an analysis of validated voters by the Pew Research Center found that a plurality of white women voted for Trump , not a majority .
In any case , white women vote for Trump at higher rates than all other women , despite the fact that Trump has spent his first time , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
This one pushed me back on my heels : the percentage of L.G.B.T .
people voting for Trump doubled from 2016 , moving from 14 percent to 28 percent .
In Georgia the number was 33 percent .
This for a president who has attacked trans people in every way imaginable .
As the Human Rights Campaign president , Alphonso David , pointed out in June , “ The Trump-Pence administration is the most virulently anti-LGBTQ administration in decades.
” This strong move toward Trump may be driven by men .
In @ @ @ @ @ @ @ published the result of a survey of 10,000 of its users that found that 45 percent of the gay men on it planned to vote for Trump .
As the company wrote on its blog : “ The idea that gay men — a demographic that typically skews left — would vote for Donald Trump at a higher percentage than U.S. citizens overall would no doubt be very surprising were it to happen .
And another surprise : 10 percent of the American gay men who took Hornet ’ s survey say they @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ] at all ’ but will vote for him nonetheless.
” All of this to me points to the power of the white patriarchy and the coattail it has of those who depend on it or aspire to it .

From the New York Times opinion page:
Exit Polls Point to the Power of White Patriarchy
Some people who have historically been oppressed will stand with their oppressors.
By Charles M. Blow, Opinion Columnist
Nov. 4, 2020, 6:30 p.m. ET
It is obscene that the presidential race is too close to call at the time this column is published: Wednesday at 6:30 p.m. Eastern Standard Time.
After all that Donald Trump has done, all the misery he has caused, all the racism he has aroused, all the immigrant families he has destroyed, all the people who have left this life because of his mismanagement of a pandemic, still roughly half of the country voted to extend this horror show.
Let me be specific and explicit here: White people — both men and women — were the only group in which a majority voted for Trump, according to exit polls. To be exact, nearly three out of every five white voters in America are Trump voters.
It is so unsettling to consider that many of our fellow countrymen and women are either racists or accommodate racists or acquiesce to racists.
But, that’s only part of what was shocking to me about the exit polls. …
Finally, exit polls are just that, polls. They can differ slightly from the validated voter data, as they did in 2016.
All that said, I am still stunned.
Racial Minorities
A larger percentage of every racial minority voted for Trump this year than in 2016. Among Blacks and Hispanics, this percentage grew among both men and women, although men were more likely to vote for Trump than women.
Among Hispanics, the movements by sex were marginal and have held remarkably steady over the last four presidential elections.
The fascinating story and movement are in the Black vote. Black people vote overwhelmingly for Democratic candidates. Black women vote more reliably Democratic than Black men — only 3 or 4 percent of Black women voted for the Republican candidate in 2008, 2012 and 2016. However, Donald Trump doubled that number this year, winning 8 percent of Black women’s votes.
Black men on the other hand have been inching away from the Democrats in recent elections, and continued that drift in this election. In 2008, 5 percent of Black men voted for John McCain; in 2012, 11 percent voted for Mitt Romney; in 2016, 13 percent voted for Trump; and, this year 18 percent voted for Trump.
These men were specifically targeted by the Trump campaign, and that targeting may well have worked. Democrats are going to have to pour some energy into specifics listening to and understanding these Black men. They are still the least likely group of men to vote Republican, but this trend away from Democrats is undeniable at this point.
White Women
Not only did a majority of white men vote for Trump, so did a majority of white women. In 2016, exit polls also showed that a majority of white women had done so, but later an analysis of validated voters by the Pew Research Center found that a plurality of white women voted for Trump, not a majority.
In any case, white women vote for Trump at higher rates than all other women, despite the fact that Trump has spent his first time, indeed his whole life, denigrating women.
The L.G.B.T. Community
This one pushed me back on my heels: the percentage of L.G.B.T. people voting for Trump doubled from 2016, moving from 14 percent to 28 percent. In Georgia the number was 33 percent.
This for a president who has attacked trans people in every way imaginable. As the Human Rights Campaign president, Alphonso David, pointed out in June, “The Trump-Pence administration is the most virulently anti-LGBTQ administration in decades.”
This strong move toward Trump may be driven by men.
In September, the gay social network Hornet published the result of a survey of 10,000 of its users that found that 45 percent of the gay men on it planned to vote for Trump.
As the company wrote on its blog:
“The idea that gay men — a demographic that typically skews left — would vote for Donald Trump at a higher percentage than U.S. citizens overall would no doubt be very surprising were it to happen. And another surprise: 10 percent of the American gay men who took Hornet’s survey say they ‘do not support [Donald Trump] at all’ but will vote for him nonetheless.”
All of this to me points to the power of the white patriarchy and the coattail it has of those who depend on it or aspire to it.


vdare--2020-11-04--Peter Brimelow On State Partition/Division—Nothing Secedes Like Secession!

Earlier , by Hank Johnson : Coronavirus Policy Clashes Yet Another Indication That U.S. States Are Too Big and Separating @ @ @ @ @ Help Save The Historic American Nation A brief Twitter thread , screenshotted to protect it @ @ @ @ @ images to go directly to articles .

Earlier, by Hank Johnson: Coronavirus Policy Clashes Yet Another Indication That U.S. States Are Too Big and Separating Illinois From Cook County Would Help Save The Historic American Nation
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vdare--2020-11-04--A Patriot Lawyer Says Trump Has The Legal Tools To Win Recount The Battle

Re : Steve Sailer 's October 26 post JFK , Mayor Daley , And The Joy of Counting Your Votes Last Late last night , Donald Trump appeared to be on his way to re-election .
He had sizable leads in states like Michigan , Wisconsin , Pennsylvania , North Carolina , and Georgia .
He was also fairly close in Nevada .
Joe Biden would need to amount a nearly insurmountable comeback in order to prevail .
Of course , at that point , the big city machines in places like Milwaukee , Philadelphia , Detroit , and Atlanta @ @ @ @ @ @ @ being tabulated , but the leads in Michigan and Wisconsin have vanished—along with Trump 's chances for victory .
The most likely explanation is that the big city machines determined how many votes they needed and then delivered .
The Left almost certainly cheated .
There is , however , a remedy available to the President .
Article II , Section 1 of the Constitution gives the power to choose electors to the individual states ' legislatures .
Both chambers of the state legislatures of Michigan , Wisconsin , Pennsylvania , North Carolina @ @ @ @ @ @ @ GOP .
To counteract the Left 's cheating , the state legislatures of these states should choose electors that will cast their ballots for Donald Trump in the Electoral College .
They could say that they are expressing the true intent of the voters in their states .
This will provide Trump with the requisite 270 Electoral Votes to win , or at least ensure that neither candidate gets 270 Electoral Votes .
That would throw the race into the House of Representatives , where each state has one vote for President .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
The Left will almost certainly challenge these actions in Court , but Trump has stacked the Federal Judiciary , including the Supreme Court , with members of the Federalist Society .
He has a decent chance of prevailing .
Even if this fails to deliver President Trump a second term , it could be used as leverage in negotiations for some type of policy implementation that the GOP wants .
After the disputed 1876 Election , the South was able to secure an end to Reconstruction in exchange for acquiescing to Rutherford @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
Perhaps the GOP could extract some legislative changes to our immigration laws in exchange for acquiescing to a Biden Presidency .
This would prevent a President Biden from doing something like increasing the refugee intake to over 100,000 .
President Trump does not really have anything to lose .
He should use every tactic available to remain as President , or at extract some concessions from the Democrats .

Re: Steve Sailer's October 26 post JFK, Mayor Daley, And The Joy of Counting Your Votes Last
From: Fabrizio Evola [Email him]
Late last night, Donald Trump appeared to be on his way to re-election. He had sizable leads in states like Michigan, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, North Carolina, and Georgia. He was also fairly close in Nevada. Joe Biden would need to amount a nearly insurmountable comeback in order to prevail. Of course, at that point, the big city machines in places like Milwaukee, Philadelphia, Detroit, and Atlanta stopped counting. The results are still being tabulated, but the leads in Michigan and Wisconsin have vanished—along with Trump's chances for victory. The most likely explanation is that the big city machines determined how many votes they needed and then delivered. The Left almost certainly cheated. There is, however, a remedy available to the President.
Article II, Section 1 of the Constitution gives the power to choose electors to the individual states' legislatures. Both chambers of the state legislatures of Michigan, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, North Carolina, and Georgia are controlled by the GOP. To counteract the Left's cheating, the state legislatures of these states should choose electors that will cast their ballots for Donald Trump in the Electoral College. They could say that they are expressing the true intent of the voters in their states. This will provide Trump with the requisite 270 electoral cotes to win, or at least ensure that neither candidate gets 270 electoral votes. That would throw the race into the House of Representatives, where each state has one vote for President. The GOP currently controls 26 state delegations. The Left will almost certainly challenge these actions in Court, but Trump has stacked the Federal Judiciary, including the Supreme Court, with members of the Federalist Society. He has a decent chance of prevailing.
Even if this fails to deliver President Trump a second term, it could be used as leverage in negotiations for some type of policy implementation that the GOP wants. After the disputed 1876 Election, the South was able to secure an end to Reconstruction in exchange for acquiescing to Rutherford B. Hayes's ascension to the Presidency. Perhaps the GOP could extract some legislative changes to our immigration laws in exchange for acquiescing to a Biden Presidency. This would prevent a President Biden from doing something like increasing the refugee intake to over 100,000.
President Trump does not really have anything to lose. He should use every tactic available to remain as President, or at least extract some concessions from the Democrats.


vdare--2020-11-04--Ann Coulter: What Now?  Could A President Biden Turn Off Riots, Coronavirus?

This may be the strangest election in history in that there is no evidence that any sizable group of people wants Biden for president .
It ’ s his fourth time running for that office .
This year , Biden lost three primaries in a row , coming in fourth in the Iowa caucus , fifth in New Hampshire a distant second in Nevada .
At the end of February , he had accumulated a paltry 14 delegates—compared to 45 for Bernie Sanders and 26 for Pete Buttigieg .
Then James Clyburn said , Vote for Biden and African Americans @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ( Although the black vote is NOT monolithic , they decided to make an exception this one time and vote monolithically . )
Biden has nothing going for him—no constituency , no fanatical supporters , just a career in politics that stretches back 50 years .
Bill Clinton had Southern Democrats and baby boomers .
Gore had the global warming zealots .
George Bush had conservative Christians and Texans .
Even Hillary had fanatical supporters .
Remember the PUMAs ( Party Unity My A $ $ ) ?
How about the weeping loons @ @ @ @ @ @ @ 2016 ?
Will anyone weep that Biden lost ?
No , they ’ ll weep because Trump won .
Yes , much of Trump ’ s vote hated Hillary , but surely at least 70 % of them actually supported Trump .
Ninety-nine percent of Biden ’ s vote is : “ I Hate Trump.
” How did Joe Biden become the nominee ?
Because he was the candidate most acceptable to black people .
Why ?
Because he was Obama ’ s vice president .
There ’ s a coalition built on @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Delaware with Kamala Harris , who was polling at about 2 % among Democrats before she dropped out of the primaries .
Harris added nothing to the ticket—except Biden ’ s ridiculously narrow , self-imposed requirement that his vice president be a woman of color .
Unfortunately for him , there just aren ’ t a lot of massively impressive black women who are elected Democrats right now .
Barbara Jordan is dead .
Shirley Chisholm is dead .
Either of them would have been chosen over Kamala .
When Harris ’ campaign @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ’ d embarrassed myself by predicting she would be the Democrats ’ 2020 presidential nominee back in 2016 before I ’ d ever heard her speak—before she ’ d even won her Senate race .
But on this , I was right : she strokes all the media ’ s erogenous zones .
Why , I think she ’ s even better looking than Michelle Obama !
Not as gorgeous as Beyonce , but beauty like THAT only happens once a century .
She wears sneakers , and cited Tupac as the “ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ what ?
Oh , we didn ’ t know Tupac was murdered in Las Vegas 20 years ago , either . )
• She ’ s presentable in Hollywood and the Hamptons .
Poor Al Sharpton has been lurking around for 30 years , but Kamala is someone we can invite to our apartments .
Harris isn ’ t a huge hit with the Democratic base .
She ’ s a hit with the people who make decisions for the party .
My prediction is redeemed .
If voters had been forced to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ve won in a landslide .
But this election was entirely a referendum on Trump .
It ’ s irrelevant who he ’ s running against .
Maybe if they had dug up Hitler to run against him other issues would have come up , but even that ’ s not a sure thing .
Harris sent out a tweet the day before the election saying , “ There ’ s a big difference between equality and equity , ” along with a video demanding that “ we all end up at the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ She ’ s not saying everyone should have an equal opportunity , but that everyone should get the same stuff .
Hello ?
Suburban women ?
Harris wants to move poor people next door to you whether they can afford the house or not .
It ’ s as if Harris was running a test : do people even care what we ’ re running on ?
Democrats could come out for vivisection of little children .
No one cares !
A significant share of the electorate was voting for Anyone But Trump @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the population into such a blind Trump hatred that the Democrats ’ vetting process for Biden was : “ What ’ s your name ?
OK , you ’ ll do.
” What happens if this bland , place-holding figurehead is sworn in as president ?
Assume on Jan 20th , Trump ’ s gone .
Now what ?
The media can ’ t blame the next black man killed by cops on Trump and they can ’ t turn off the coronavirus panic .
Does the virus suddenly go away because someone @ @ @ @ @ @ @ The toughest job for the media is going to be coming up with an excuse to put Trump on the front page once he ’ s gone .
Have they thought about what happens next ?
Ann Coulter is the author of THIRTEEN New York Times bestsellers—collect them here .
Her book , ¡Adios America !
The Left ’ s Plan To Turn Our Country Into A Third World Hell Hole , was released on June 1 , 2015 .
Her latest book , Resistance Is Futile !
: How the Trump-Hating Left @ @ @ @ @ @ @ on August 21 , 2018 .

This may be the strangest election in history in that there is no evidence that any sizable group of people wants Biden for president.
It’s his fourth time running for that office. This year, Biden lost three primaries in a row, coming in fourth in the Iowa caucus, fifth in New Hampshire a distant second in Nevada. At the end of February, he had accumulated a paltry 14 delegates—compared to 45 for Bernie Sanders and 26 for Pete Buttigieg.
Then James Clyburn said, Vote for Biden and African Americans in South Carolina voted for Biden. (Although the black vote is NOT monolithic, they decided to make an exception this one time and vote monolithically.)
Democrats never looked back.
Biden has nothing going for him—no constituency, no fanatical supporters, just a career in politics that stretches back 50 years.
Bill Clinton had Southern Democrats and baby boomers. Gore had the global warming zealots. George Bush had conservative Christians and Texans. Even Hillary had fanatical supporters. Remember the PUMAs (Party Unity My A$$)? How about the weeping loons at the Javits Center on election night 2016?
Will anyone weep that Biden lost? No, they’ll weep because Trump won. Yes, much of Trump’s vote hated Hillary, but surely at least 70% of them actually supported Trump. Ninety-nine percent of Biden’s vote is: “I Hate Trump.”
How did Joe Biden become the nominee? Because he was the candidate most acceptable to black people. Why? Because he was Obama’s vice president. There’s a coalition built on rock.
Combine the empty suit from Delaware with Kamala Harris, who was polling at about 2% among Democrats before she dropped out of the primaries. Harris added nothing to the ticket—except Biden’s ridiculously narrow, self-imposed requirement that his vice president be a woman of color.
Unfortunately for him, there just aren’t a lot of massively impressive black women who are elected Democrats right now. Barbara Jordan is dead. Shirley Chisholm is dead. Either of them would have been chosen over Kamala.
When Harris’ campaign crashed and burned, I thought I’d embarrassed myself by predicting she would be the Democrats’ 2020 presidential nominee back in 2016 before I’d ever heard her speak—before she’d even won her Senate race.
But on this, I was right: she strokes all the media’s erogenous zones.
She’s got the Hollywood glamour!
Why, I think she’s even better looking than Michelle Obama! Not as gorgeous as Beyonce, but beauty like THAT only happens once a century.
(Harris will be in a dozen Vogue fashion shoots.)
She’s so cool!
She wears sneakers, and cited Tupac as the “best rapper alive.” (Wait, what? Oh, we didn’t know Tupac was murdered in Las Vegas 20 years ago, either.)
She’s presentable in Hollywood and the Hamptons.
Poor Al Sharpton has been lurking around for 30 years, but Kamala is someone we can invite to our apartments.
Harris isn’t a huge hit with the Democratic base. She’s a hit with the people who make decisions for the party. My prediction is redeemed.
If voters had been forced to focus on Harris, Trump would’ve won in a landslide. But this election was entirely a referendum on Trump. It’s irrelevant who he’s running against. Maybe if they had dug up Hitler to run against him other issues would have come up, but even that’s not a sure thing.
Harris sent out a tweet the day before the election saying, “There’s a big difference between equality and equity,” along with a video demanding that “we all end up at the same place.”
Is anyone listening? She’s not saying everyone should have an equal opportunity, but that everyone should get the same stuff.
Hello? Suburban women? Harris wants to move poor people next door to you whether they can afford the house or not. It’s as if Harris was running a test: do people even care what we’re running on?
Democrats could come out for vivisection of little children. No one cares! A significant share of the electorate was voting for Anyone But Trump.
The media had whipped enough of the population into such a blind Trump hatred that the Democrats’ vetting process for Biden was: “What’s your name? OK, you’ll do.”
What happens if this bland, place-holding figurehead is sworn in as president? Assume on Jan 20th, Trump’s gone. Now what?
The media can’t blame the next black man killed by cops on Trump and they can’t turn off the coronavirus panic. Does the virus suddenly go away because someone new is in the White House? The toughest job for the media is going to be coming up with an excuse to put Trump on the front page once he’s gone.
Have they thought about what happens next?
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Her latest book, Resistance Is Futile!: How the Trump-Hating Left Lost Its Collective Mind, was released on August 21, 2018.


vdare--2020-11-04--In Puerto Rico, A Time Of Transition And A Vote For Statehood

Besides all the drama surrounding the presidential and congressional elections , there are the elections in Puerto Rico , our @ @ @ @ @ to make a state .
From the Associated Press : People across Puerto Rico awaited @ @ @ @ @ that saw long lines of voters and produced a tight gubernatorial race in the U.S. @ @ @ @ @ Rico Awaits Final Result in Tight Gubernatorial Race by Danica Coto , Associated Press , @ @ @ @ @ Puerto Rico has its own autonomous government with proceedings in the Spanish language .
The @ @ @ @ @ La Fortaleza , the oldest continuously-occupied executive mansion in the New World , built from @ @

Besides all the drama surrounding the presidential and congressional elections, there are the elections in Puerto Rico, our Caribbean territory some would like to make a state.
From the Associated Press:
People across Puerto Rico awaited final results Wednesday following elections that saw long lines of voters and produced a tight gubernatorial race in the U.S. Caribbean territory. [Puerto Rico Awaits Final Result in Tight Gubernatorial Race by Danica Coto, Associated Press, November 4, 2020]
Puerto Rico has its own autonomous government with proceedings in the Spanish language. The Puerto Rican governor resides in La Fortaleza, the oldest continuously-occupied executive mansion in the New World, built from 1534–1540.


vdare--2020-11-04--Dems Follow The Sailer Strategy 2.0, Branding Themselves The Black Party

Two weeks ago , I noted that the Republican Party has been digging itself an ever deeper electoral hole by tolerating ( when not exacerbating ) the lax immigration policies of the last four-plus decades .
These caused demographic changes that are indisputably and inevitably deleterious to the GOP ... .
My suggestion : the only long-term option for the Republicans , the de facto white party , is to rebrand the Democrats as the de facto black party .
Not the Minority Party or the Cool , Hip , Multicultural Party—but the Black Party .
Go with the flow @ @ @ @ @ @ @ : Black versus White .
Sure , it 's kind of retarded , but Americans , especially American intellectuals and pundits , are n't good at thinking in terms of shades of brown .
You ca n't beat it , so use it .
Hispanics and Asians certainly will never be terribly happy with the idea of being junior partners in the white party .
( Indeed , lots of white people have an allergy to belonging to the white party . )
Hence , the alternative must be framed that if Hispanics @ @ @ @ @ @ @ junior partners in the white party , they get be junior partners in the black party .
Or they can not choose and stay home on Election Day .
The subtle cunning of the tactic of rebranding the Democrats as the black party is not to criticize the Democrats for being the vehicle of African-American political activism , but to praise them for it , over and over , in the most offhand `` everybody-knows '' ways .
Republicans can hurry along the coming Democratic train wreck by , for example , lauding @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of the Democratic Party .
Respectfully point out that the Democratic Party is the rightful agent for the assertion of African-American racial interests , and that advancing black interests is central to the nature of the Democratic Party .
Note that , while individual blacks wishing to vote for the good of the country are more than welcome in the GOP , black racial activists have their natural home in the Democratic Party .
That 's what the Democrats are there for .
Do n't argue it .
Just treat it as a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ encourage feelings of proprietariness among blacks toward their Democratic Party .
It 's not all that hard to get blacks to feel that they morally deserve something , such as , for example , predominance in the Democratic Party .
African-Americans are good at feeling that others owe them deference .
This kind of subtle language , casually repeated , puts Democrats in a delicate spot .
Either they insult blacks by denying this presumption , or they alarm their Asian , Hispanic , and white supporters by not denying it .
As @ @ @ @ @ @ @ black political control has n't worked out well for places as far apart as Detroit and Zimbabwe .

Two weeks ago, I noted that the Republican Party has been digging itself an ever deeper electoral hole by tolerating (when not exacerbating) the lax immigration policies of the last four-plus decades. These caused demographic changes that are indisputably and inevitably deleterious to the GOP....
My suggestion: the only long-term option for the Republicans, the de facto white party, is to rebrand the Democrats as the de facto black party.
Not the Minority Party or the Cool, Hip, Multicultural Party—but the Black Party. Go with the flow of the fundamental Manichaeism of American thought: Black versus White.
Sure, it's kind of retarded, but Americans, especially American intellectuals and pundits, aren't good at thinking in terms of shades of brown. You can't beat it, so use it.
Hispanics and Asians certainly will never be terribly happy with the idea of being junior partners in the white party. (Indeed, lots of white people have an allergy to belonging to the white party.) Hence, the alternative must be framed that if Hispanics and Asians don't want to be junior partners in the white party, they get be junior partners in the black party.
Black or white: choose one.
Or they can not choose and stay home on Election Day.
The subtle cunning of the tactic of rebranding the Democrats as the black party is not to criticize the Democrats for being the vehicle of African-American political activism, but to praise them for it, over and over, in the most offhand "everybody-knows" ways.
Republicans can hurry along the coming Democratic train wreck by, for example, lauding blacks as the "moral core" of the Democratic Party. Respectfully point out that the Democratic Party is the rightful agent for the assertion of African-American racial interests, and that advancing black interests is central to the nature of the Democratic Party. Note that, while individual blacks wishing to vote for the good of the country are more than welcome in the GOP, black racial activists have their natural home in the Democratic Party. That's what the Democrats are there for.
Don't argue it. Just treat it as a given.
Moreover, Republican rhetoric should encourage feelings of proprietariness among blacks toward their Democratic Party. It's not all that hard to get blacks to feel that they morally deserve something, such as, for example, predominance in the Democratic Party. African-Americans are good at feeling that others owe them deference.
This kind of subtle language, casually repeated, puts Democrats in a delicate spot. Either they insult blacks by denying this presumption, or they alarm their Asian, Hispanic, and white supporters by not denying it. As everybody knows, but seldom says, black political control hasn't worked out well for places as far apart as Detroit and Zimbabwe.


vdare--2020-11-04--What's the Matter with Minnesota?

What's the Matter with Minnesota?

Last election , Trump came close to turning long-time blue state Minnesota .
In 2020 , the year that the @ @ @ @ @ Minnesota managed to get much of Minneapolis ’ s commercial footage looted by BLM and @ @ @ @ @ is winning easily .
In contrast , Missourians did not react positively in 2016 to @ @ @ @ @ riots and mayhem growing out of Ferguson .
What are Minnesotans thinking , if anything @ @ @ @ @ prone to the Stockholm Syndrome ?

Last election, Trump came close to turning long-time blue state Minnesota. In 2020, the year that the Democratic leadership of Minneapolis and Minnesota managed to get much of Minneapolis’s commercial footage looted by BLM and burned by Antifa, Biden is winning easily. In contrast, Missourians did not react positively in 2016 to the Obama Administration encouraging the riots and mayhem growing out of Ferguson.
What are Minnesotans thinking, if anything? Are Minnesotans just more prone to the Stockholm Syndrome?
[Comment at Unz.com]


vdare--2020-11-04--Do Third World Countries Take As Long To Count Votes As The US?

Do these states that are still up in the air have people working graveyard shifts to count the votes ?
Or do they just shut down for the night ?
Wisconsin appears to be counting steadily , but what about the Eastern Time Zone states like Georgia ?
It ’ s only 11:42 pm on the West Coast so the night is young .
Update : It ’ s 12:01 AM here in California .
I am wide awake .
What I ’ d like to know is whether the various up-in-the-air states are still counting votes right now , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ lid and expect to stroll back in 8 or 9ish in the morning and start counting again .
So in Philadelphia they are counting ballots right now in the wee hours of the morning , but they 're just not telling the public what they 've counted ?
Why ?
https : //t.co/zlBI5eIaTc — Steve Sailer ( @ Steve_Sailer ) November 4 , 2020 So they are working hard in Philly , they ’ re just not telling you the results until the bosses get back during office hours , or something .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ of all this hard work at the appropriate time , but not before .

Do these states that are still up in the air have people working graveyard shifts to count the votes? Or do they just shut down for the night?
Wisconsin appears to be counting steadily, but what about the Eastern Time Zone states like Georgia?
It’s only 11:42 pm on the West Coast so the night is young.
Update: It’s 12:01 AM here in California. I am wide awake. What I’d like to know is whether the various up-in-the-air states are still counting votes right now, or whether they’ve called a lid and expect to stroll back in 8 or 9ish in the morning and start counting again.
Anybody know?
So in Philadelphia they are counting ballots right now in the wee hours of the morning, but they're just not telling the public what they've counted?
Why? https://t.co/zlBI5eIaTc — Steve Sailer (@Steve_Sailer) November 4, 2020
Here’s a livestream of vote-counting in Philadelphia:
So they are working hard in Philly, they’re just not telling you the results until the bosses get back during office hours, or something. You will be apprised of the results of all this hard work at the appropriate time, but not before.
[Comment at Unz.com]


vdare--2020-11-04--Sailer In Taki's: My Opinion Of Trump

Sailer In Taki's: My Opinion Of Trump

For my Taki Magazine column this morning , I finally get around to being just about the last pundit in the world to give you my opinion on Donald Trump ’ s personality : Being a Wednesday-morning columnist is a good gig , except the day after Election Day when nobody will be interested in whatever statistics I ’ d researched on Monday .
So , having no clue how the voting turned out yesterday , let me try to be at least vaguely relevant by finally getting around to telling you My Opinion of Trump .
It occurs to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ less about Donald Trump ’ s personality over the past four years than just about any pundit in America .
One reason is because everybody else writes incessantly about Trump , while my niche is analyzing topics that few dare mention , such as how urban murders were up 53 % over 2019 during the June–August George Floyd mourning process .
( How ’ s that media-declared Racial Reckoning working out for big-city property values anyway ? )
Another reason is that my main interest is in pattern recognition : I ’ m @ @ @ @ @ @ @ social data .
Trump , on the other hand , is sui generis .

For my Taki Magazine column this morning, I finally get around to being just about the last pundit in the world to give you my opinion on Donald Trump’s personality:
Being a Wednesday-morning columnist is a good gig, except the day after Election Day when nobody will be interested in whatever statistics I’d researched on Monday.
So, having no clue how the voting turned out yesterday, let me try to be at least vaguely relevant by finally getting around to telling you My Opinion of Trump.
It occurs to me that I’ve probably written less about Donald Trump’s personality over the past four years than just about any pundit in America.
One reason is because everybody else writes incessantly about Trump, while my niche is analyzing topics that few dare mention, such as how urban murders were up 53% over 2019 during the June–August George Floyd mourning process. (How’s that media-declared Racial Reckoning working out for big-city property values anyway?)
Another reason is that my main interest is in pattern recognition: I’m basically a baseball-stats-type guy who instead analyzes social data.
Trump, on the other hand, is sui generis.


vdare--2020-11-03--Texas House Races Show The Threat Of Demographic Transformation

Democrats are giddy that 2020 will be the year Texas turns blue .
The RealClearPolitics average gives Donald Trump only a slight lead over Joe Biden in a state the president won by roughly nine points .
This blue shift is obviously caused by demographic change , and is apparent in its contested congressional races [ Polls , late campaign activity suggest Republican dominance in Texas could be at risk , by Alex Samuels and Patrick Svitek , Texas Tribune , October 27 , 2020 ] .
Texas ’ 22nd Congressional District , nestled in the Houston suburbs , was @ @ @ @ @ @ @ 2016 , incumbent Rep. Pete Olson won the district by almost 20 points .
This year , his aspiring successor Trey Niehls is down in the polls to his Indian Democratic opponent , Sri Preston Kulkarni .
Demographics explain the district ’ s change .
The area has nearly doubled its Asian population in 10 years , going from 11 % in 2009 to 18 % in 2019 [ As Democrats dream of a blue Texas , tight House race will give a glimpse of how far they ’ ve come , by @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , 2020 ] .
Asians , particularly Indians , are helping push Texas blue .
Kulkarni ’ s campaign is phone banking in 27 different languages , including six of the most common non-English dialects of India .
Seventy-two percent of Kulkarni ’ s co-ethnics in America plan to vote for Biden this year [ Indian Americans Stir Blue Wave in Deep Red Texas , by Jack Detsch and Robbie Gramer , Foreign Policy , October 28 , 2020 ] .
That ’ s not the only suburban district under threat .
The @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Rep. Kenny Marchant , also may go Democratic .
The area , which covers northern Dallas suburbs , was once a “ a more homogenous majority white area ” but “ is now a diverse area with white , Latino , Black folks living together , ” according to University of Texas professor Victoria DeFrancesco Soto [ Will A Diverse Electorate Make The Difference In Flipping Texas ' 24th Congressional District ?
, by Syeda Hasan , KERA , October 28 , 2020 ] .
The race pits a white woman , Beth @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ” Candace Valenzuela .
The most recently available polls show Valenzuela ahead .
Marchant won re-election in 2016 by double digits .
Additionally , the 22nd district , which mostly comprises San Antonio suburbs , could also go blue .
It ’ s represented by Chip Roy , who boasts an A+ NumbersUSA rating .
He faces off against former gubernatorial candidate Wendy Davis .
The latest poll puts Roy slightly ahead .
Demographics are destiny .
The Texas GOP may hold on to the state in 2020 , but they will struggle @ @ @ @ @ @ @ -- unless they address and solve the national question .

washingtonwatcherii@protonmail.com (Washington  Watcher II)

Democrats are giddy that 2020 will be the year Texas turns blue. The RealClearPolitics average gives Donald Trump only a slight lead over Joe Biden in a state the president won by roughly nine points. This blue shift is obviously caused by demographic change, and is apparent in its contested congressional races [Polls, late campaign activity suggest Republican dominance in Texas could be at risk, by Alex Samuels and Patrick Svitek, Texas Tribune, October 27, 2020].
Texas’ 22nd Congressional District, nestled in the Houston suburbs, was once a solid red seat. In 2016, incumbent Rep. Pete Olson won the district by almost 20 points. This year, his aspiring successor Trey Niehls is down in the polls to his Indian Democratic opponent, Sri Preston Kulkarni. Demographics explain the district’s change. The area has nearly doubled its Asian population in 10 years, going from 11% in 2009 to 18% in 2019 [As Democrats dream of a blue Texas, tight House race will give a glimpse of how far they’ve come, by Jacob Pramuk, CNBC, October 28, 2020]. Asians, particularly Indians, are helping push Texas blue. Kulkarni’s campaign is phone banking in 27 different languages, including six of the most common non-English dialects of India. Seventy-two percent of Kulkarni’s co-ethnics in America plan to vote for Biden this year [Indian Americans Stir Blue Wave in Deep Red Texas, by Jack Detsch and Robbie Gramer, Foreign Policy, October 28, 2020].
That’s not the only suburban district under threat. The 24th district, represented by the retiring Rep. Kenny Marchant, also may go Democratic. The area, which covers northern Dallas suburbs, was once a “a more homogenous majority white area” but “is now a diverse area with white, Latino, Black folks living together,” according to University of Texas professor Victoria DeFrancesco Soto [Will A Diverse Electorate Make The Difference In Flipping Texas' 24th Congressional District?, by Syeda Hasan, KERA, October 28, 2020]. The race pits a white woman, Beth Van Duyne, against “Black Latina” Candace Valenzuela. The most recently available polls show Valenzuela ahead. Marchant won re-election in 2016 by double digits.
Additionally, the 22nd district, which mostly comprises San Antonio suburbs, could also go blue. It’s represented by Chip Roy, who boasts an A+ NumbersUSA rating. He faces off against former gubernatorial candidate Wendy Davis. The latest poll puts Roy slightly ahead.
Demographics are destiny. The Texas GOP may hold on to the state in 2020, but they will struggle to maintain dominance for years to come--unless they address and solve the national question.


vdare--2020-11-03--A Talk Radio Listener Reminds Us Why Dewey DIDN'T Defeat Truman In 1948: Republican Cowardice

Re : Patrick J. Buchanan 's article Is Biden-Harris on Tom Dewey 's Path To Defeat ?
Fortune Magazine has a piece on Dewey 's 1948 loss ( famously miscalled by the Chicago Tribune ) in 1948 : The 1948 election ... .may offer a lens by which to understand the outcome of the Trump-Biden race .
Here ’ s how : If Joe Biden blows what has been a solid lead in pre-election polls , his loss may be attributable to having pursued something akin to Dewey ’ s glide-path campaign that avoided controversy while trying to nurse a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ if this year ’ s pre-election polling is accurate and Trump is repudiated , his defeat may be attributed to a failure to adapt Truman ’ s blueprint for winning in spectacular , against-the-odds fashion .
The parallels between 1948 ’ s ‘ Dewey defeats Truman ’ election and today , by W. Joseph Campbell , November 2 , 2020 The actual parallel is that in 1948 , Dewey was better known than Truman , the incumbent President , which was not an advantage because he was generally disliked .
Much of the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ people who could n't stand the pompous little man .
Dewey refused to campaign on issues that could have carried him across the finish line , such as Communist infiltration of the Democrat administrations and their support for the Chinese Communists .
Dewey did n't seem to mind communists , as he too supported Mao , but he detested conservative Republicans .
By 1952 , Truman was quite well known , and it did n't help him at all , since his administration was a total failure .
See earlier letters from the @ @ @

Re: Patrick J. Buchanan's article Is Biden-Harris on Tom Dewey's Path To Defeat?
From: A Talk Radio Listener [Email him]
Fortune Magazine has a piece on Dewey's 1948 loss (famously miscalled by the Chicago Tribune) in 1948:
The 1948 election....may offer a lens by which to understand the outcome of the Trump-Biden race. Here’s how: If Joe Biden blows what has been a solid lead in pre-election polls, his loss may be attributable to having pursued something akin to Dewey’s glide-path campaign that avoided controversy while trying to nurse a clear lead in the polls. But if this year’s pre-election polling is accurate and Trump is repudiated, his defeat may be attributed to a failure to adapt Truman’s blueprint for winning in spectacular, against-the-odds fashion. The parallels between 1948’s ‘Dewey defeats Truman’ election and today, by W. Joseph Campbell, November 2, 2020
The actual parallel is that in 1948, Dewey was better known than Truman, the incumbent President, which was not an advantage because he was generally disliked. Much of the pro-Truman vote was an anti-Dewey vote by people who couldn't stand the pompous little man.
Dewey refused to campaign on issues that could have carried him across the finish line, such as Communist infiltration of the Democrat administrations and their support for the Chinese Communists. Dewey didn't seem to mind communists, as he too supported Mao, but he detested conservative Republicans. By 1952, Truman was quite well known, and it didn't help him at all, since his administration was a total failure.
See earlier letters from the same reader.


vdare--2020-11-03--Election 2020: What's At Stake For The Historic American Nation?

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The media had a grand time calling Trump ’ s immigration policies `` racist @ @ @ @ @ them , Trump ’ s policies were popular with all kinds of voters .
It @ @ @ @ @ angry white men '' who were losing their jobs and neighborhoods ( and sometimes their @ @ @ @ @ So were black people .
So were Hispanics .
So were teenagers .
So were—well @ @ @ @ @ Asians were more likely to be the ones taking those jobs .
—Ann Coulter , @ @ @ @ @ , It 's What Won For Him Last Time !

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The media had a grand time calling Trump’s immigration policies "racist," but unfortunately for them, Trump’s policies were popular with all kinds of voters. It wasn’t just "angry white men" who were losing their jobs and neighborhoods (and sometimes their lives) to immigrants. So were black people. So were Hispanics. So were teenagers. So were—well, to be fair, Asians were more likely to be the ones taking those jobs.
—Ann Coulter, Trump NEEDS To Talk Immigration, It's What Won For Him Last Time!


vdare--2020-11-02--Patrick J. Buchanan: Can A Disintegrating America Come Together?

On the last days of the 2020 campaign , President Donald Trump was holding four and five rallies a day in battleground states , drawing thousands upon thousands of loyalists to every one .
Waiting for hours , sometimes in the cold , to cheer their champion on , these rallygoers love Trump as few presidents have been loved .
This writer can not recall a president and campaign that brought out so many and such massive crowds of admirers in its closing days .
And who are these cheering , chanting loyalists who have brought their children out with @ @ @ @ @ @ @ great Trump '' —in the eyes of our dispossessed elites ?
They are people who belong in a `` basket of deplorables , '' sneered Hillary Clinton : `` racist , sexist , homophobic , xenophobic , Islamaphobic '' bigots , and a sub-species of humanity that is `` irredeemable . ''
Today 's election is an us-versus-them choice unlike any other , for the issues in dispute are broader and deeper than ever before .
And those issues raise questions : No matter who wins , can this nation come together again @ @ @ @ @ @ @ real possibility—what form will America take as it disintegrates ?
Even as voters were mailing in ballots in the millions , stores in our great cities were being boarded up against rioters , looters and arsonists .
Suburban residents , fearful that the urban mobs may one day be coming for them , were stockpiling guns and ammunition .
How divided are we ?
The New York Times `` Sunday Review '' devoted its entire section to Donald Trump , as seen from the eyes of its columnists .
On the cover page @ @ @ @ @ @ @ `` All 15 of our columnists explain what the past four years have cost America , and what 's at stake in this election . ''
Each of the 15 trashed Trump from his or her perspective .
Since World War II , America has held elections where the country seemed at sword 's point .
Not all were like 1960 , where scholar Arthur Schlesinger Jr. , felt compelled to write the book , Kennedy or Nixon : Does It Make Any Difference ?
Schlesinger felt he had to explain that despite @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in their 40s , it made a difference who was elected .
Yet , even after the most divisive elections of the post-war era—1952 and 1968—the country pulled back together .
President Dwight Eisenhower , from 1952 to 1956 , and Richard Nixon , from 1968 to 1972 , restored unity to the nation during their first terms by ending the Asian wars into which their predecessors had taken the nation .
New leadership ended the wars and brought the United States together .
Americans are not divided over war .
One of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ us out of new wars , even if he has not yet extracted us from the wars he inherited .
Today , we are divided over ideology , morality , culture , race and history .
We are divided over whether America is the great nation we were raised to revere and love or a nation born in great sins and crimes—such as the near annihilation of indigenous peoples and their cultures and the enslavement of hundreds of thousands of Black peoples from Africa .
Are we the nation of 1776 and 1789 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ whose institutions are still infected with the `` systemic racism '' of our birth ?
In this divided country , at times , Americans seem to detest each other .
Indeed , if the United States did not exist as one nation , would this diverse people ever agree to form a compact to come together , or would we seek to retain our separate identities ?
In tearing down the statues of explorers such as Christopher Columbus or the Founding Fathers and their successor presidents , from Andrew Jackson to Abraham Lincoln @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the contempt for the country these men helped to bring into being , and for what this country stands for today , is manifest .
A significant slice of America 's young believes that the nation to which they belong was detestable from its birth , and that the Western civilization from which it sprang is not worth saving .
In his farewell address , President Ronald Reagan spoke of the America where he was raised and which he cherished : '' The hope of human freedom—the quest for it , the achievement @ @ @ @ @ @ @ I 've often recalled one group of early settlers making a treacherous crossing of the Atlantic on a small ship when their leader , a minister , noted that perhaps their venture would fail and they would become a byword , a footnote to history .
But perhaps , too , with God 's help , they might also found a new world , a city upon a hill , a light unto the nations . ''
How many Americans still believe what Reagan believed ?
How many yet see America as `` @ @ @ @ @ @ @ light unto the nations '' ?
Patrick J. Buchanan needs no introduction to VDARE.COM readers ; his books State of Emergency : The Third World Invasion and Conquest of America , and Suicide of a Superpower : Will America Survive to 2025 ?
are available from Amazon.com .
Patrick J. Buchanan is the author of “ The Greatest Comeback : How Richard Nixon Rose From Defeat to Create the New Majority .
His latest book , published May , 2018 , is “ Nixon ’ s White House Wars : The Battles That @ @ @ @ @ @ @ America Forever.
” See Peter Brimelow ’ s review : “ Wheel And Fight ” —Pat Buchanan ’ s Nixon Book Provides Road Map For Trump .

Earlier by Patrick J. Buchanan: A Most Consequential Presidency
On the last days of the 2020 campaign, President Donald Trump was holding four and five rallies a day in battleground states, drawing thousands upon thousands of loyalists to every one.
Waiting for hours, sometimes in the cold, to cheer their champion on, these rallygoers love Trump as few presidents have been loved. This writer cannot recall a president and campaign that brought out so many and such massive crowds of admirers in its closing days.
And who are these cheering, chanting loyalists who have brought their children out with them to see and remember "the great Trump"—in the eyes of our dispossessed elites?
They are people who belong in a "basket of deplorables," sneered Hillary Clinton: "racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamaphobic" bigots, and a sub-species of humanity that is "irredeemable."
Today's election is an us-versus-them choice unlike any other, for the issues in dispute are broader and deeper than ever before.
And those issues raise questions: No matter who wins, can this nation come together again? And if it cannot—a real possibility—what form will America take as it disintegrates?
Even as voters were mailing in ballots in the millions, stores in our great cities were being boarded up against rioters, looters and arsonists.
Suburban residents, fearful that the urban mobs may one day be coming for them, were stockpiling guns and ammunition.
How divided are we?
The New York Times "Sunday Review" devoted its entire section to Donald Trump, as seen from the eyes of its columnists. On the cover page of the Review ran the headline, "All 15 of our columnists explain what the past four years have cost America, and what's at stake in this election."
Each of the 15 trashed Trump from his or her perspective.
Since World War II, America has held elections where the country seemed at sword's point. Not all were like 1960, where scholar Arthur Schlesinger Jr., felt compelled to write the book, Kennedy or Nixon: Does It Make Any Difference?
Schlesinger felt he had to explain that despite the similarity of the candidates, both in their 40s, it made a difference who was elected.
Yet, even after the most divisive elections of the post-war era—1952 and 1968—the country pulled back together. President Dwight Eisenhower, from 1952 to 1956, and Richard Nixon, from 1968 to 1972, restored unity to the nation during their first terms by ending the Asian wars into which their predecessors had taken the nation.
New leadership ended the wars and brought the United States together.
The difference today?
Americans are not divided over war. One of Trump's successes has been to keep us out of new wars, even if he has not yet extracted us from the wars he inherited.
Today, we are divided over ideology, morality, culture, race and history. We are divided over whether America is the great nation we were raised to revere and love or a nation born in great sins and crimes—such as the near annihilation of indigenous peoples and their cultures and the enslavement of hundreds of thousands of Black peoples from Africa.
Are we the nation of 1776 and 1789, or the nation of 1619, whose institutions are still infected with the "systemic racism" of our birth?
In this divided country, at times, Americans seem to detest each other.
Indeed, if the United States did not exist as one nation, would this diverse people ever agree to form a compact to come together, or would we seek to retain our separate identities?
In tearing down the statues of explorers such as Christopher Columbus or the Founding Fathers and their successor presidents, from Andrew Jackson to Abraham Lincoln to Teddy Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson, the contempt for the country these men helped to bring into being, and for what this country stands for today, is manifest.
A significant slice of America's young believes that the nation to which they belong was detestable from its birth, and that the Western civilization from which it sprang is not worth saving.
In his farewell address, President Ronald Reagan spoke of the America where he was raised and which he cherished:
"The hope of human freedom—the quest for it, the achievement of it—is the American saga. And I've often recalled one group of early settlers making a treacherous crossing of the Atlantic on a small ship when their leader, a minister, noted that perhaps their venture would fail and they would become a byword, a footnote to history. But perhaps, too, with God's help, they might also found a new world, a city upon a hill, a light unto the nations."
How many Americans still believe what Reagan believed? How many yet see America as "a city upon a hill, a light unto the nations"?
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Patrick J. Buchanan needs no introduction to VDARE.COM readers; his books State of Emergency: The Third World Invasion and Conquest of America, and Suicide of a Superpower: Will America Survive to 2025? are available from Amazon.com. Patrick J. Buchanan is the author of “The Greatest Comeback: How Richard Nixon Rose From Defeat to Create the New Majority.
His latest book, published May, 2018, is “Nixon’s White House Wars: The Battles That Made and Broke a President and Divided America Forever.”
See Peter Brimelow’s review: “Wheel And Fight”—Pat Buchanan’s Nixon Book Provides Road Map For Trump.


vdare--2020-11-02--How Much Of The 53% Murder Surge Is Due To Masks?

How much has mask-wearing contributed to the huge increase in mayhem since Memorial Day ?
The NYT reported on criminologist @ @ @ @ @ of 20 cities : in June-August , murders were 53 % higher in 2020 than @ @ @ @ @ a lot of that is due to the hyper-Ferguson effect of the media-declared Racial Reckoning @ @ @ @ @ structural break ” in late May : i.e.
, the Death of George Floyd .
@ @ @ @ @ of having masked men everywhere ?

How much has mask-wearing contributed to the huge increase in mayhem since Memorial Day?
The NYT reported on criminologist Richard Rosenfeld’s study of 20 cities: in June-August, murders were 53% higher in 2020 than in 2019. Obviously, a lot of that is due to the hyper-Ferguson effect of the media-declared Racial Reckoning: Rosenfeld finds a “structural break” in late May: i.e., the Death of George Floyd.
But what about the effect of having masked men everywhere?
[Comment at Unz.com]


vdare--2020-11-01--Joe And Kamala Go All In On Anti-White Buzzphrases

Earlier : Biden Vows To Rip Out Roots Of Systemic Racism , i.e .
Seize The Equity In Your Home @ @ @ @ @ ( DIE ) means they want to take your home equity .

Earlier: Biden Vows To Rip Out Roots Of Systemic Racism, i.e. Seize The Equity In Your Home
This is our moment to root out systemic racism and build a nation true to our founding ideals. A nation where all men and women are not only created equal — but treated equally.
Here's how we'll advance racial economic equity: https://t.co/Tjgyn1gR2V — Joe Biden (@JoeBiden) November 2, 2020
There’s a big difference between equality and equity. pic.twitter.com/n3XfQyjLNe — Kamala Harris (@KamalaHarris) November 1, 2020
“Diversity Inclusion Equity” (DIE) means they want to take your home equity.
[Comment at Unz.com]


vdare--2020-10-30--Never Forget: Diversity Is Our Greatest Strength—Walmart Pulls Guns And Ammo from All U.S. Stores Ci

Never Forget: Diversity Is Our Greatest Strength—Walmart Pulls Guns And Ammo from All U.S. Stores Citing "Potential Unrest"

Keeping saying it .
Don ’ t stop , or else you ’ ll be added to the naughty list : diversity is our greatest strength .
Just keep saying it and repeating it until you finally believe the healing power of this five word sentence .
Walmart on Thursday said it has pulled guns and ammunition from the sales floors of its U.S. stores as it seeks to keep firearms from being stolen should social unrest erupt .
“ We have seen some isolated civil unrest , and as we have done on several occasions over the last few @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and ammunition off the sales floor as a precaution for the safety of our associates and customers , ” a Walmart spokesperson said in an email to CBS MoneyWatch .
“ These items do remain available for purchase by customers.
” The company in June removed firearms and ammunition from stores after George Floyd ’ s killing by police when several of its stores were damaged .
The nation ’ s biggest retailer remains a major seller of guns and ammunition , although it has scaled back , selling firearms in roughly half @ @ @ @ @ @ @ stopped selling ammunition that can be used in semiautomatic rifles and handguns after a 2019 shooting at one of its stores in El Paso , Texas , killed 23 people .
The company stopped selling assault-style weapons in 2015 and raised the minimum age to buy firearms and ammunition to 21 , from 18 , in 2018 .
It stopped selling handguns everywhere but in Alaska in 1993 , and ended its sales of rifles like the AR-15 in 2015 .
Consumer demand for firearms has jumped this year .
The National Shooting @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , estimates there were a record 12.1 million background checks for gun purchases from January through July , up nearly 72 % from 7.1 million gun checks in the year-ago period .
Forty percent of firearms sales involves purchasers who ’ d never owned a gun , according to a NSSF survey of firearm retailers .
It concludes that almost 5 million Americans bought a gun for the first time in 2020 .
We must all become Winston Smith , and just admit the truth behind the statement and state unequivocally , “ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ must win the victory over ourselves , right ?
Will just two gin-scented tears trickling down the sides of our noses suffice ?
But note firearms sales have set a new record this year , all during a time period where Walmart has decided to pull guns and ammo from every store across America .
Nevertheless , “ Diversity is our greatest strength .
”

Keeping saying it. Don’t stop, or else you’ll be added to the naughty list: diversity is our greatest strength.
Just keep saying it and repeating it until you finally believe the healing power of this five word sentence.
Walmart on Thursday said it has pulled guns and ammunition from the sales floors of its U.S. stores as it seeks to keep firearms from being stolen should social unrest erupt. “We have seen some isolated civil unrest, and as we have done on several occasions over the last few years, we have moved our firearms and ammunition off the sales floor as a precaution for the safety of our associates and customers,” a Walmart spokesperson said in an email to CBS MoneyWatch. “These items do remain available for purchase by customers.” The company in June removed firearms and ammunition from stores after George Floyd’s killing by police when several of its stores were damaged. The nation’s biggest retailer remains a major seller of guns and ammunition, although it has scaled back, selling firearms in roughly half of its 4,700 U.S. stores. Walmart stopped selling ammunition that can be used in semiautomatic rifles and handguns after a 2019 shooting at one of its stores in El Paso, Texas, killed 23 people. The company stopped selling assault-style weapons in 2015 and raised the minimum age to buy firearms and ammunition to 21, from 18, in 2018. It stopped selling handguns everywhere but in Alaska in 1993, and ended its sales of rifles like the AR-15 in 2015. Consumer demand for firearms has jumped this year. The National Shooting Sports Foundation, an industry trade group, estimates there were a record 12.1 million background checks for gun purchases from January through July, up nearly 72% from 7.1 million gun checks in the year-ago period. Forty percent of firearms sales involves purchasers who’d never owned a gun, according to a NSSF survey of firearm retailers. It concludes that almost 5 million Americans bought a gun for the first time in 2020.
We must all become Winston Smith, and just admit the truth behind the statement and state unequivocally, “Diversity is our greatest strength.” We must win the victory over ourselves, right? Will just two gin-scented tears trickling down the sides of our noses suffice?
But note firearms sales have set a new record this year, all during a time period where Walmart has decided to pull guns and ammo from every store across America.
Nevertheless, “Diversity is our greatest strength.”


vdare--2020-10-29--Allan Wall: I Went To The Trump Rally in Omaha And Wasn't "Stranded," I Just Walked Back To My Car

Donald Trump held a rally in Omaha , Nebraska on October 27 .
I was there , and it was a great experience .
A Trump rally is a combination of a rock concert , a stand up–comic act and religious revival .
It 's a community get-together , as you can meet and talk with other Trump supporters while waiting hours for Trump 's appearance .
For previous firsthand accounts of Trump rallies , see my reports of the following rallies : Oklahoma City ( 2015 ) , Oklahoma City ( 2016 ) , Topeka , Kansas ( 2018 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , and the Tulsa rally of June 2020 .
Then there was Springfield , Missouri ( 2018 ) , where I was unable to enter because so many people attended ( but my son got in somehow ) .
So I attended the Omaha Trump rally , along with my son and a friend of my sons , and it did not disappoint .
Click here for a transcript and video of the Omaha rally .
Here are some things Trump had to say about immigration .
After the 20:59 mark , after @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ban , Trump said that After the 38:40 mark , Trump said that It was a great rally , yet afterwards something occurred which attracted much attention from the Mainstream Media , and which the MSM folks were glad to publicize .
It was the bus problem , wherein those of us who attended became unwitting pawns in a national media story .
The Washington Post reported it with this headline : Hundreds of Trump supporters stuck in the cold for hours when buses can ’ t reach Omaha rally , by Tim @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Griffiths , October 28 , 2020 .
LMT Online repackaged the WaPo article with this headline : Hundreds of Trump supporters stuck in the cold for hours when buses ca n't reach Omaha rally Newsweek 's report was entitled Omaha Trump Rally Attendees Stranded , Several Taken to Hospital Suffering Hypothermia , by Samantha Lock , October 28 , 2020 .
The Twitter report was entitled Trump rally attendees stranded after listening to the president in Omaha .
The Daily Beast made an anti-Trump metaphor out of it : Wow , who 'd @ @ @ @ @ @ @ much about Trump supporters ?
And I got to be a small , nameless part of a national news story .
To begin with , the rally was held outside at an airfield , but parking was from two and a half to over three miles away , depending on which lot you parked in .
So we were taken by bus to the rally site .
After the rally , there were many buses to take the people back to the parking lots .
There were too many people to all get @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the buses took a long time to get back and pick people up .
So many of us just started walking back to the parking lots .
It was a nice brisk walk , over three miles for us .
Nobody was actually abandoned , but it took several hours to transport everybody who wanted to be transported .
It should n't have turned out like that , of course .
It could have been done much more efficiently in much less time .
And there were those who required medical attention .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ bad some people had medical problems and I hope they 've all recovered .
However , let 's remember that the rally took place in Omaha , not Miami , so anybody who went should have been prepared for the climate , and nobody should have gone who had a pre-existing condition that could have been a problem .
To summarize , yes , the bus service back to the parking lot could have been handled better and should n't have taken so long .
Reflecting on the situation , I think that @ @ @ @ @ @ @ worked better .
But rally-goers were n't `` stranded . ''
And , regarding the medical cases , it would be interesting to study other major events , including rallies , concerts , and football games for comparison .
Click here for a more balanced news report from a local news source .
And , consider this tweet on the subject from Matt Walsh : `` BLM is burning Philadelphia and rioting again in major cities across the country but somehow the top trend on Twitter is that some people at a Trump @ @ @ @ @ @ @ back to their cars . ''

Donald Trump held a rally in Omaha, Nebraska on October 27. I was there, and it was a great experience.
A Trump rally is a combination of a rock concert, a stand up–comic act and religious revival. It's a community get-together, as you can meet and talk with other Trump supporters while waiting hours for Trump's appearance.
For previous firsthand accounts of Trump rallies, see my reports of the following rallies: Oklahoma City (2015), Oklahoma City (2016), Topeka, Kansas (2018), Columbia , Missouri (2018), and the Tulsa rally of June 2020. Then there was Springfield, Missouri (2018), where I was unable to enter because so many people attended (but my son got in somehow).
So I attended the Omaha Trump rally, along with my son and a friend of my sons, and it did not disappoint.
Click here for a transcript and video of the Omaha rally.
Here are some things Trump had to say about immigration.
After the 20:59 mark, after speaking about COVID-19 and the China travel ban, Trump said that
"Biden was willing to sacrifice your lives on the altar of open borders. He wants open borders. Without borders, you don’t have a country. By the way, the wall is now over 400 miles long and we’re building 10 miles a week and it’s very soon going to be finished. So we have the strongest southern border we’ve ever had."
After the 38:40 mark, Trump said that
"Under my leadership, we achieved the most secure border in US history, our Southern border, largely because of the wall. My opponent’s insane immigration plan would completely eliminate US borders. Open borders they want to have, let’s have open borders so everyone can just pour [in] like they used to. He would make every community into a sanctuary city for violent criminals."
It was a great rally, yet afterwards something occurred which attracted much attention from the Mainstream Media, and which the MSM folks were glad to publicize. It was the bus problem, wherein those of us who attended became unwitting pawns in a national media story.
The Washington Post reported it with this headline: Hundreds of Trump supporters stuck in the cold for hours when buses can’t reach Omaha rally, by Tim Elfrink, Brittany Shammas and Brent D. Griffiths, October 28, 2020.
Newsweek's report was entitled Omaha Trump Rally Attendees Stranded, Several Taken to Hospital Suffering Hypothermia, by Samantha Lock, October 28, 2020.
The Twitter report was entitled Trump rally attendees stranded after listening to the president in Omaha.
The Daily Beast made an anti-Trump metaphor out of it:
"How’s this for an extremely heavy-handed real-life metaphor? Hundreds of President Donald Trump’s fans have reportedly been left stranded in the freezing cold after gathering together to offer him their unwavering support. CNN’s Jeff Zeleny reported that, over an hour after Trump left Nebraska on Air Force One following a rally at Eppley Airfield on Tuesday night, several hundred supporters were left by a roadside due to an insufficient number of buses to transport them." Hundreds of Trump Fans Left Stranded at Freezing Nebraska Airfield After Rally, by Jamie Ross, October 28, 2020
Wow, who'd have thought that the MSM cares so much about Trump supporters?
And I got to be a small, nameless part of a national news story.
So, what happened?
To begin with, the rally was held outside at an airfield, but parking was from two and a half to over three miles away, depending on which lot you parked in. So we were taken by bus to the rally site.
After the rally, there were many buses to take the people back to the parking lots. There were too many people to all get back in the first round, and the buses took a long time to get back and pick people up. So many of us just started walking back to the parking lots. It was a nice brisk walk, over three miles for us.
Nobody was actually abandoned, but it took several hours to transport everybody who wanted to be transported.
It shouldn't have turned out like that, of course. It could have been done much more efficiently in much less time.
And there were those who required medical attention. According to MedPage Today
At least seven people were hospitalized and 30 had to receive medical attention during and after a Tuesday evening [October 27] campaign rally with President Trump in Omaha, Nebraska. Thousands were left waiting for hours for transportation following the rally, according to reports. Many suffered from conditions triggered by cold temperatures, including several elderly people. Temperatures hovered near freezing, according to the U.S. Weather Service. A medic was called to care for a 68-year-old male reporting initially of "possible hypothermia and altered mental status. He is alert and oriented and shivering," according to a tweet by Omaha Scanner, a website that monitors first-responder radio communications. The Scanner also tweeted: "One officer advising 8 to 9 elderly people who are struggling. Separate officer advising they have located an elderly party who is frozen cold unable to move with an altered mental status... medic reports 4 patients treated for cold exposure with no transports to hospital required" and a dizzy 71-year-old woman.
[Dozens Need Medical Attention at Frigid Trump Rally, by Ryan Basen, October 28, 2020
It's too bad some people had medical problems and I hope they've all recovered.
However, let's remember that the rally took place in Omaha, not Miami, so anybody who went should have been prepared for the climate, and nobody should have gone who had a pre-existing condition that could have been a problem.
To summarize, yes, the bus service back to the parking lot could have been handled better and shouldn't have taken so long. Reflecting on the situation, I think that utilizing a different pickup area would have worked better.
But rally-goers weren't "stranded." And, regarding the medical cases, it would be interesting to study other major events, including rallies, concerts, and football games for comparison.
Click here for a more balanced news report from a local news source.
And, consider this tweet on the subject from Matt Walsh: "BLM is burning Philadelphia and rioting again in major cities across the country but somehow the top trend on Twitter is that some people at a Trump rally had some trouble getting a shuttle back to their cars."