If Leo Strauss were with us today, he’d add Reductio ad Trumpium to his Reduction ad Hitlerum.
Trump’s Obama/Bush-like executive overreaches are a cause for serious concern, and it would not surprise me if this measure was also one such. And yet, a lot of the people sanctimoniously moralizing about his stance on illegitimate migrants have no legitimate policy alternative to offer.
The only people entitled to criticize his strategy on immigration are people who support the rule of law, and who draw the appropriate distinctions between legitimate and illegitimate migrants.
An illegitimate migrant is not a ‘victim.’
An innocent legitimate migrant who has been attacked is the kind of person deserving compassion or empathy.
It sickens me to see so much hypocritical virtue-signalling over illegitimate migrants when the UK has recently seen some hideous attacks (including brutal assaults and arson) against LEGITIMATE migrants.
It’s a pity people won’t get their priorities in order. You can speak up for legitimate migrants or you can speak up for illegitimate migrants, but you can’t do both.
Speaking up for illegitimate migrants blurs the distinction between legitimacy and illegitimacy, thus making legitimate migrants look somehow guilty by association with illegitimate ones.
