Thread: When in doubt, blame bigotry

Charles Krauthammer: When in doubt, blame bigotry



Charles Krauthammer August 28, 2010 – 9:18 am


Liberalism under siege is an ugly sight indeed. Just yesterday it was all hope and change and returning power to the people. But the people have proved so disappointing. Their recalcitrance has, in only 19 months, turned the predicted liberal ascendancy into a full retreat. Ah, the people, the little people, the small-town people, the “bitterâ€

Charles Krauthammer: When in doubt, blame bigotry

– Disgust and alarm with the federal government’s unwillingness to curb illegal immigration, as crystallized in the Arizona law? Nativism.

Then came the Arizona immigration law. It seems impossible for the left to believe that people of good will could hold that: (a) illegal immigration should be illegal, (b) the federal government should not hold border enforcement hostage to comprehensive reform, i.e., amnesty, (c) every country has the right to determine the composition of its immigrant population.

Hmmm, is Krauthhammer starting to lean our way? Before he supported a "Path to Citizenship" for illegals in the USA.