Friday, August 21, 2015

Even conservatives disagree with Trump about immigration

Charles Krauthammer is about as conservative as you can get. Yet even he disagrees with Trump’s plan to deport all illegal immigrants:
“This would all be merely ridiculous if it weren’t morally obscene. Forcibly evict 11 million people from their homes? It can’t happen. It shouldn’t happen. And, of course, it won’t ever happen.”
Conservative columnist Michael Gerson also strongly disagrees with Trump:
“No conservatives should be playing with this ideological nitroglycerin — unless they truly want to blow up our political order. And then they have ceased to be conservatives at all."

And conservative blogger Jennifer Rubin calls Trump "a megalomaniac who spouts vile nonsense.”

"The Trump experience more broadly will perhaps prompt some conservative introspection, as well as inspection as to who is really 'conservative.' Hint: It is not the crowd that advocates ripping up the Constitution and the forcible deportation of millions of people at the cost of hundreds of billions of dollars. Many but not all these folks were among the voices cheering the shutdown, another spasm of vitriol and irrationality that harmed the party and the conservative movement more generally. Maybe from here on out Republicans can do a better job recognizing that 'conservatism' does not amount to recklessness, divisive and destructive rhetoric."

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