NOTE: PLEASE say if you DON'T want your name and/or email address published when sending VDARE email. MORE MEXICANS? A READER DESPAIRS. PETER BRIMELOW CONSOLES HIM.From: Mike Pupis Why bother? See "U.S.
Reportedly Weighs Legalizing Mexican Illegals,"
Reuters Peter Brimelow writes: Of course, this is an amazing development, besides being suicidal for the Republican Party. But I am old enough to remember the total despair in the conservative movement in the mid-1970s. Bill Rusher, then the publisher of National Review, told me off the record that he believed all was lost and that the Red Flag would wave over the world - that the last chance had been 1968, when Reagan failed to beat Nixon for the Republican nomination, a closer thing than was generally reported. "But," he said, "we carry on. For one thing, you never know what will happen next. [A principle also endorsed by the Prussian military thinker von Clausewitz] And secondly, there are theological injunctions against despair!" Six years later, Reagan was in the White House. Moral: Once more into the breach! July 16, 2001 |
