Wee-fingered Scotch golf course tender Donnie Trump made hay by promising an immigration policy that includes a 1,989 mile-long wall, tossing 11 million people over said wall, and not allowing people past the wall if they come from areas with unapproved religions. Trump’s racist, nativist, whatever-ist policies turned out to be attractive to Republican primary voters. But there is something of a problem for his campaign: It seems that, if you gather all the racist, nativist people together, they have a name—Republican primary voters.
Despite intense support among his followers for his proposals for a Mexican border wall and a ban on Muslim immigration, Donald J. Trump will face trouble with independent voters on immigration in the November election, according to a survey published on Thursday by the Public Religion Research Institute and the Brookings Institution, nonpartisan research organizations.
In a surprising result, most Americans don’t want our country huddled behind barbed wire, don’t want to see people classed as good or bad based on their religion, and don’t think it makes sense to fill our nation with tens of thousands of round ‘em up, boot ‘em out agents. And the rest, the people that do want those things, already voted for Trump ...
Over all, 58 percent of respondents said they opposed a border wall. But among people who said they supported Mr. Trump, 82 percent favored the plan for a wall, reflecting the deep polarization in this election season.
Yes, a deep polarization. Between the people who want to keep America a diverse, welcoming nation of immigrants, and those who would rather have a walled off fortress reserved for just the right kind of people. Kind of like an exclusive golf club! Maybe we should ditch that lefty “citizen” thing and start thinking of ourselves as “members” of America.
Mr. Trump also appears to be out of step with independents and the majority of Americans on his proposal to deport 11 million immigrants who are in the country illegally. In the survey, 78 percent of independents — and the same percentage of Americans over all — said those immigrants should be allowed to become American citizens or legal residents, while 21 percent favored deportation.
That’s only because people haven’t seen Trump’s uniform designs for the Trump America Club Membership Police. Lots of gold braid. Beautiful. The best.
Considering that Trump has mostly ignored traditional definitions of conservative economics and can’t keep his foreign policy straight for the length of a sentence, it’s somewhat comforting to know that there is one core feature of Republican policy that never changes: Dislike for brown people.
