Shortly
before Thanksgiving, New York Times columnist Frank Bruni wrote a column that
should chill you to the bone.
Titled
“Donald Trump’s Demand for Love,” Bruni said: “I had just shaken the
president-elect’s normal-size hand and he was moving on to the next person when
he wheeled around, took a half step back, touched my arm and looked me in the
eye anew. ‘I’m going to get you to write some good stuff about me,’ Donald
Trump said.”
Bruni is a
fabulous writer, but if he ever writes good stuff about you, Mr.
President-elect, YOU WILL HAVE FAILED.
I assume
this was just our president-elect doing something he gets the least credit for,
which is being nice. But you can never be too careful.
The Times is
in total opposition to Trump’s stated goal to make America great again. Trump
has got to know — not next year, but by 5 p.m. today — that anyone pursuing his
agenda will incite rage, insanity and spitting blood from that newspaper.
There’s a
long and tragic history of Republicans who won the war but lost the peace by
trading results for respectability.
The first
President Bush not only promised not to raise taxes, but also laid out the
steps Democrats would take to get him to break that promise. “And the Congress
will push me to raise taxes,” he said in his iconic 1988 convention speech,
“and I’ll say no, and they’ll push, and I’ll say no, and they’ll push again,
and I’ll say to them, ‘Read my lips: No new taxes.’”
He was a
good prognosticator! Congress did exactly as he’d anticipated. But instead of
saying “no,” Bush caved.
That
betrayal cost the GOP its most popular issue. As the Times’ Michael Wines put
it (shortly before Bush predictably lost his re-election bid), with the
president’s sellout, Republicans gave up “a political weapon so fearsome that
it had destroyed three Democratic presidential candidates in 12 years.”
The Times
had spent months hectoring Bush about the “yawning deficit,” denouncing his
“obdurate refusal” to raise taxes, and promising “political popularity” for the
“needed” tax hike. But the moment Bush raised taxes, the Times couldn’t stop
crowing about his broken promise.
That was
always the whole point. Not the “yawning deficit.” Not raising revenue. But to
get the GOP to give up its most potent issue.
Trump has
just annihilated 16 far more experienced Republican rivals, the Clinton machine
and the entire media/Hollywood/Wall Street complex by raising the one issue no
other politician would touch: putting America’s interests first on immigration.
What promise
do you think they want Trump to break?
Luckily for
the country, Trump doesn’t seem obsessed with what the elites think of him. But
his advisers include just the type of Republicans whose second-tier law schools
make them particularly susceptible to the cheap respectability of establishment
media approval.
Trump has
been a politician for only a little more than one year. He has no experience
with the tricks that will be played to get him to betray voters on his
signature issue. The first president Bush knew what was coming — and he still
broke his promise.
Manifestly,
if anyone in Washington seriously wanted to build a wall, deport illegals,
return criminal aliens to their own countries, end the anchor baby scam and
prevent jihadists from immigrating here to kill Americans, it would have been
done already.
Nearly every
promise Trump made on immigration is 100 percent within the power of the
president. For example:
It is
already the president’s job, as commander in chief, to protect the borders.
It is
already the Department of Defense’s job to build border walls.
It’s already
the law that citizenship is not acquired by being born on U.S. soil to an
illegal alien. (No Congress has ever passed such a law, nor has the Supreme
Court ruled that they are.)
It is
already the secretary of state’s duty to rescind visas from countries that
refuse to take their criminals back.
It is
already the president’s job to prohibit the entry of any class of immigrants he
deems “detrimental to the interests of the United States.”
It is already
the president’s job to remove immigrants who commit crimes, entered our country
through fraud (i.e., every single refugee), are in the country illegally or who
become public charges.
None of
those things have ever been done before for one reason: The entire Washington
establishment is unalterably opposed to enforcing our immigration laws.
Trump will
have no trouble enacting the rest of his agenda. If congressional Republicans
are good for anything, it is to repeal Obamacare, cut taxes and regulation,
confirm good judges and protect the Second Amendment. No one but Trump would
have done it, but not even Nancy Pelosi is going to attack Trump for keeping
jobs in America.
Only when it
comes to immigration will Trump be Gary Cooper, out there alone against every
powerful entity in America. Just as he was during the campaign.
On
immigration, Trump will be furiously opposed by: Democrats, Republicans, the
permanent bureaucracy, the Chamber of Commerce, George Soros, The Wall Street
Journal — in fact, the entire media, except four webpages, six bloggers and
five talk-radio hosts — and hundreds of taxpayer-funded immigrant grievance
groups. And that’s just off the top of my head.
He’ll even
be opposed by his own hand-picked U.N. ambassador! (It is an amazing fact that
at the 2016 State of the Union, both the Democratic president’s address, and
the Republican governor’s response, attacked candidate Trump’s immigration
proposals.)
There’s a
reason millions of Americans were showing up at Trump’s rallies chanting,
“Build the Wall!” and not, “End Obamacare!” “Cut taxes!” “Save the Second
Amendment!” — or any other slogan that could have been chanted just as easily
at a Jeb! Rally.
There are
only a handful of people in the entire country with the knowledge and ability
to enforce our immigration laws. Any Cabinet appointees likely to impress The
New York Times aren’t going to get it done. They won’t have to expressly defy
Trump. They just won’t do it.
Perhaps they’ll make some showy
effort at deporting illegals — and then back down at the first La Raza lawsuit.
Or they will allow career government lawyers to submit briefs in court that
cite all the wrong cases. Or they’ll wait for Speaker Paul Ryan’s approval to
do anything. Or they’ll be moved by a Nikki Haley speech about the vibrant
diversity of Somali refugees. Or they’ll be scared off by Washington
bureaucrats who say, You can’t do that!
But if Trump
chooses from among the few people who know how to get it done (Kris Kobach,
Kris Kobach or Kris Kobach), his promises will be kept. He can relax. He can
spend all his time playing golf, living in Trump Tower, yelling at American
CEOs trying to outsource jobs — and engaging in appalling conflicts of interest
with his businesses.
He could
even shoot someone on Fifth Avenue. (I propose GOP consultant Rick Wilson!)
Trump is
down to his last wish from Aladdin. He can impress The New York Times, or he
can make America great again. But he can’t do both.
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