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Wednesday, May 27, 2015

Imigration Reform: Why the Future Will be Trouble for Conservative Republicans

     So the GOP is at it again: they're celebrating the injunction against Obama's executive action to shield many Latinos from deportation. 

     http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/wp/2015/05/27/morning-plum-is-gop-again-shooting-itself-in-foot-with-latinos/

     A couple of years ago, everyone from Karl Rove to Reince Priebus-who was the RNC Chairman-were warning that the GOP had to do something about immigration reform or face real problems down the line. 

    Two years later, this advice has clearly been rebuked and even Rove and others who support immigration reform seem nonplussed now. It's as if they are buying into the idea that the GOP had a 'wave election' in 2014 so clearly there is no electoral pain in kicking Latinos in the teeth. 

    Maybe, the Heritage Foundation is right after all: forget Latinos, just find more White people to vote GOP. 

    At the time Rove had shown the fallacious-ness of this argument and all conservative thinkers with any understanding of economics urged reform. 

   http://www.nationalreview.com/article/347976/immigration-reform-pro-growth-larry-kudlow

   Yet you don't hear conservatives worrying about this now-they see this injunction as a cause for rejoicing. It's awful short-sighted:

   "In the wake of yesterday’s ruling upholding an injunction on Obama’s executive actions shielding millions of people from deportation, Bloomberg reports that immigration advocates are vowing to extract a steep price from Republicans in next year’s elections."

    http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/wp/2015/05/27/morning-plum-is-gop-again-shooting-itself-in-foot-with-latinos/

     So why can't the GOP ever learn? I think the trouble with conservative Republicans is-they're conservative. Being a conservative means you believe you are in possession of some timeless verities-you essentially deny that societal evolution is taking place.

    Liberals like Bill and Hillary Clinton have had no problem talking about issues that they have changed their minds about since the 90s, but conservatives believe their Truth is unchanging. If society goes in directions they don't like they assume that society is suffering from Godless decadence that it's their job to rescue us from.

    Think about the conservative judicial philosophy of Originalism. My guess is that this is the basic philosophy that conservatives take to all  political and social issues-deny that change is ever legitimate.

    I've felt all along that the GOP will not learn or change anything substantive in its policies-it might try to have a few more women or black and brown faces among its members but the views won't change one iota. For this reason it's going to suffer a bloodbath over things like immigration reform over the next 20 years.

 

         

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