George Will gets it; but none of the despicable Republican candidates for POTUS do...

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/trumps-losing-immigration-policy/2015/08/21/b58a6d9e-4771-11e5-846d-02792f854297_story.html?hpid=z2

Trump’s immigration plan could spell doom for the GOP

It has come to this: The GOP, formerly the party of Lincoln and ostensibly the party of liberty and limited government, is being defined by clamors for a mass roundup and deportation of millions of human beings. To will an end is to will the means for the end, so the Republican clamors are also for the requisite expansion of government’s size and coercive powers.

Most of Donald Trump’s normally loquacious rivals are swaggeringly eager to confront Vladimir Putin but are too invertebrate — Lindsey Graham is an honorable exception — to voice robust disgust with Trump and the spirit of, the police measures necessary for and the cruelties that would accompany his policy. The policy is: “They’ve got to go.”

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Trump evidently plans to deport almost 10 percent of California’s workers and 13 percent of that state’s K-12 students. He is, however, at his most Republican when he honors family values: He proposes to deport intact families, including children who are citizens. “We have to keep the families together,” he says, “but they have to go.” Trump would deport everyone, then “have an expedited way of getting them [“the good ones”; “when somebody is terrific”] back.” Big Brother government will identify the “good” and “terrific” from among the wretched refuse of other teeming shores.

Trump proposes seizing money that illegal immigrants from Mexico try to send home. This might involve sacrificing mail privacy, but desperate times require desperate measures. He would vastly enlarge the federal government’s enforcement apparatus, but he who praises single-payer health-care systems and favors vast eminent domain powers has never made a fetish of small government.

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Today’s big government finds running Amtrak too large a challenge, and Trump’s roundup would be about 94 times larger than the wartime internment of 117,000 persons of Japanese descent. But Trump wants America to think big. The big costs, in decades and dollars (hundreds of billions), of Trump’s project could be reduced if, say, the targets were required to sew yellow patches on their clothing to advertise their coming expulsion. There is precedent. (OUCH!)

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Trump is dangerous. I agree with Matt Taibi that he was amusing to a point, but now he's Palin in 2008 on steroids, and nothing good will come of it. Trump isn't running for POTUS, he's running for King of Straight White Male Bagger Fantasy Land. It just keeps getting worse and worse.

[spanone]

1. K&R...

[rurallib]

2. hard to believe George Will "getting it"

they are on a race based bender right now, so who's going to listen to Will?

[catbyte]

3. I was surprised too. He must be pragmatic enough to know that Trump's cockamamie scheme

is nothing but a colossal, unrealistic, impossible boondoggle that will destroy the Republican party. Look what happened in California and that heinous Prop 187 & Pete Brown's bigoted campaign. They both won, but now California is and will remain bright blue for years into the foreseeable future unless the Republicans radically change. However, I think that's impossible until enough of those old, angry, bigoted baggers die off.

[tblue37]

5. Unfortunately, there are plenty of young racists to replace them. nt

[catbyte]

8. Fortunately, demographics will outpace them. I only hope it won't be too late to save us.

[Fred Sanders]

17. The racists are massively outnumbered by non-racists in America, but the mass media wants conflict.

So plays up the free speech of the racists and suppress all the rest of the majority thst are not.

All part of the cover they use of being "balanced"...next up on CNN...evolution or God? Our next two guests will discuss, followed by a fair and balanced discussion of pro-Earth is flat advocates and the pro-rounders.

[hifiguy]

7. Cali is gonna stay bright blue then,

because you're going to need geologic or cosmic time scales to measure the pukes' rate of "change" back in the direction of sanity.

[JDPriestly]

18. Yes. California will stay bright blue. We don't want to throw away immigrants.

They add a lot to our state and our country. Sometimes it seems like we are all immigrants in California. I wonder whether the rest of the country really likes us for who we are out here in California or if they only like us because we have Disney- and Lego-land. Makes me feel bad sometimes.

What is wrong with Trump and his supporters?

Sick. Sick. Sick.

[hifiguy]

19. I love California.

Was in Temecula a week ago tonight for the wedding of my oldest and best friend. He turned 54 on Friday and got married on Saturday. One guy who won't forget his anniversary.

Spent a fair amount of time in LA over the years and have been to the Bay Area a few times.

Every time I get off the plane in California I feel like I am coming home. One of the bigger mistakes of my life was not going to law school at USC or UCLA and going east.

[CTyankee]

10. didja see the disclosure at the end? His wife works for the Walker campaign...

so there's that...

[KG]

4. piss on George Will anyway.

[NCjack]

16. George likely "gets it" as a way to piss on Trump to help

Gov. Kasich (R-Ohio). George's wife works for the Kasich 2016 Campaign. She had worked for the Gingrich 2012 Campaign, that received a lot of disguised help from George, who has an agenda in about everything he writes.

[Jim Lane]

22. Per the linked article, Will's wife works for Walker, not Kasich.

But I agree with your general point -- this tie helps explain why George Will, of all people, is suddenly writing something sensible.

[NCjack]

23. Oops! You are correct. My memory failed me. Thanks to the correction. /nt

[hifiguy]

6. When something is so blindingly obvious that even

George Fucking Will gets it.......

[Warren DeMontague]

9. George Will represents the side of the GOP that loves being able to hire undocumented labor

Under the table for pennies, and not have to pay for their benefits, etc.

Dont kid yourself. He represents the chamber of commerce and sees the dire demographic danger in the GOP losing the Latino vote. He doesnt give a shit about "families".

[hifiguy]

11. I have no doubt that Will has an undocumented maid, gardner or both.

He's a faithful toady of the tenth-percenters and dime-store moralists, nothing more.

[Liberal_in_LA]

12. kick

[spanone]

13. has mr. bow tie come to his fucking senses? i doubt it.

[pangaia]

14. Look this asshole isn't going to do anything.

So, just forget about him.

[malaise]

15. but now he's Palin in 2008 on steroids

NOW?
Where were they when he was calling the President of the United States an illegal alien because he's African-American.

[catbyte]

20. I meant presidential contenders. Trump wasn't running then. I know he's always been an asshole.

And I'm still waiting for the results that "awesome investigation" when he sent his minions to Hawaii to "prove" the President wasn't born here. Another blowhard brag that went nowhere.

[cantbeserious]

21. Yes - But - The Tea Party Masses Want Blood - Trump Will Give Them Blood

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