1/ Trying to get a broad historical picture on Republicans (from at least 1965 onward) & all I can say is 1994 was squandered. Maybe Newt didn’t foresee demographic picture (census won’t hit til 2000). Or maybe he did, I don’t know. The issues of his day were highlighted in...
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3/ the mother of all opportunities within his first year: a bunch of foreigners knocked over the twin towers. Combining that w/ what (and who) ushered the GOP into power in 1994, how do you NOT pounce on that? Take that football & run w/ it. But muh racism. But muh cheap labor.
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4/ That was the ideal time to turn off the spigot of mass immigration: would help wages rise for first time since 70s, everyone would be behind you cause muh nation at war w/ terror, Dems would be forced to play w/ electorate they have, not replacement ppl, could cut welfare more
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5/ which would make white people happy & probably guarantee hegemony for decades. But no: that’s not “who we are.” Cheap labor for rich ppl & muh principles like free trade & nation of immigrants is what we got instead. More of the ppl who hit us in the country now than in 2001.
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6/ But the NRO was happy. Bush wasn’t crass like Blormpf. He was a “true conservative”, starting wars illegally & bungling hurricane relief & spending trillions of dollars of our money on god only knows what culminating in the worst Econ crash since the depression. Responsible!
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7/ What a mess. Fiscally irresponsible, internationally irresponsible, domestically irresponsible. God damn George W Bush & all the rest of them. All of those fuck ups & what do we have to show for it? “Whites will be a minority by 2045”. Well played GOP. Well played. /end
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they knew what was happening; they were bought off by donors. immigration was on the table for restriction in '96, c. Jordan Commission, neocons and donors killed it
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Yep. The 1990 immigration act did not have a sunset, but provided for a commission to make recommendations on whether to revert to prior quotas. That's exactly what Jordan advised -- a return to levels of 1980s. Had broad support and Clinton prob would have signed.
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