The Year of the Lou Dobbs Democrats?
"A brilliant piece by Peter Beinart this morning in America's Newspaper of Record
(but the article is not yet online as I write). Beinart suggests that the Democrats are moving towards a full embrace of Lou-Dobbs-ism . Beinart is writing from a New Republic squishy-left standpoint, but every conservative should read this piece. Beinart points out that all the Dems need do to be full Dobbsians is to embrace Dobbs's very strong stand ("Dobbs is downright obsessive about the issue," says Beinart) against illegal immigration," writes John Derbyshire for National Review.
"For many blue-collar Americans today, Mexican immigration--whether legal or not--is not just linked to broader anxieties about globalization; it has become the prime symbol of those anxieties. In the coming years, unless Democrats take a hard line on immigration, their hard line on trade is unlikely to do them much electoral good," Beinart wrote.