“The message has been received that President Trump is, to coin a phrase, a bad hombre,” the ethically and ethnically challenged Rich Lowry informs us, gloating over the decline in illegal border crossings since the advent of Herr Donald. Granted, Trump’s wild and vicious threats during the campaign—to build a “great wall” and force Mexico to pay for it, to deport about 14 million helpless innocents, and ban all Muslims—were “impossibilities”, Rich tells us. But so what? We don’t expect people to do the impossible, and thus, it follows, as night follows day, that we can’t hold Trump responsible for his wild and vicious threats, because it was impossible for him to accomplish them! Hey, this malignant amorality stuff is kinda fun!
Afterwords
In the old days—back in the Reagan Era—the National Review gang luved illegal immigration. It helped to break unions (in the meatpacking industry, for example) and gave them an unlimited supply of nannies. But now that those people have served their purpose—well, we’ll let Donald handle that one. I mean, sometimes, you need a “bad hombre”—to coin a phrase.
