This was an excellent conversation, both Glenn and John making great points!
To me the issue of “the other” or “people coming in who don’t share our values” was answered by John himself on that second quote. These people are coming in illegally which means they will bypass the assimilation part of the process. If they don’t assimilate then they DON’T and WON’T share our values, and that is the problem.
The fact that it has something to do with race because they’re Latino is coincidence, and this problem would be exactly the same if it was illegal immigrants coming in from Canada.
It’s a slap in the face to those who came here legally and assimilated, including a great many Latinos themselves who get a bad name by association.
Listen to Victor Davis Hanson on this topic; without a border you don’t have a country, and without assimilation you just have groups of people sharing land, you don’t have a nation of people sharing values.
As he expertly put it ‘you can move to Japan but you’ll never be Japanese, you can move to France but you’ll never be French, but you can move to America and become American’ because being American is about a set of values and laws that we share and all believe in.
Making this a racial issue is just a way of the democrats trying to misdirect the public again.
John I’m sorry to say is falling for it, and taking umbrage at Tucker pointing this out because you don’t like the ‘they’ or ‘other’ is focusing on the wrong thing.
This was an excellent conversation, both Glenn and John making great points!
To me the issue of “the other” or “people coming in who don’t share our values” was answered by John himself on that second quote. These people are coming in illegally which means they will bypass the assimilation part of the process. If they don’t assimilate then they DON’T and WON’T share our values, and that is the problem.
The fact that it has something to do with race because they’re Latino is coincidence, and this problem would be exactly the same if it was illegal immigrants coming in from Canada.
It’s a slap in the face to those who came here legally and assimilated, including a great many Latinos themselves who get a bad name by association.
Listen to Victor Davis Hanson on this topic; without a border you don’t have a country, and without assimilation you just have groups of people sharing land, you don’t have a nation of people sharing values.
As he expertly put it ‘you can move to Japan but you’ll never be Japanese, you can move to France but you’ll never be French, but you can move to America and become American’ because being American is about a set of values and laws that we share and all believe in.
Making this a racial issue is just a way of the democrats trying to misdirect the public again.
John I’m sorry to say is falling for it, and taking umbrage at Tucker pointing this out because you don’t like the ‘they’ or ‘other’ is focusing on the wrong thing.