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Steve King . . . Jeff Sessions . . . Kris Kobach . . . then Donald Trump in November . . .
The "America First" conservatives and supposed
"immigration hawks" are falling like dominos.
The "America First" conservatives and supposed
"immigration hawks" are falling like dominos.
I never put much stock in the "immigration hawks." They made careers out of complaining about the problems with immigration. They "grifted" off problems, without articulating solutions, defining what they were *actually* against, and what winning would look like.
Sessions and Kobach were the favorites of the "dissident Right." They would never acknowledge that fact, but then they built careers, in part, off being "our guys," allowing us to think that we could solve problems while sitting on our asses.
For the good of the real movement for change—not the one we have right now, but the one that is necessary—all the proxies, all the "immigration hawks" and "our guys," just have to go.
More disturbing for the "American nationalists," they must look hard at these loses and learn lessons. It was always put forth that being like Kobach—a conservative sub-racial politician—is the path to victory. How many more defeats must we see for that illusion to vanish?
You can blame Trump's tactical failures—and there are many—you can blame Jared and Ivanka, etc. At some point you must conclude that conservative nationalism isn't going anywhere, and it's simply not very popular.
