American Consequences - September 2020

but all good liberals also live behind breakable glass windows. It would be awfully cynical to suggest that Trump supporters quit threatening him back and go provide the Antifa mob with food, drink, and throw-able objects (of the squishier, less dangerous kind such as plastic water bottles, because we don't want any policemen to get hurt). I don't want to be an awful cynic so I won't suggest it.] END ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION AND PROTECT AMERICAN WORKERS Block Illegal Immigrants From Becoming Eligible for Taxpayer-FundedWelfare, Health Care, and Free College Tuition Mandatory Deportation for Non-Citizen Gang Members

of inciting American xenophobia. Some Americans do hate foreigners... And yet America is a nation of foreigners. We're hip to the kind of tricks that foreigners get up to. "Know thyself," said the Delphic Oracle. Americans hate foreigners. Yet the "End Illegal Immigration" section of the Trump platform is remarkably similar to the lovey-dovey Obama administration's immigration policy. There are a few differences – blanket ineligibilities, "sanctuary cities" ban, and "able to support themselves" proviso. (Obama didn't seem to think anybody should support themselves, that was the government's job.) Otherwise, it's Obama immigration all over again, minus a Dreamer or two. Trump hasn't exactly gone soft on immigration, but he hasn't loaded up on immigration Viagra either.] Then there's... INNOVATE FOR THE FUTURE Launch Space Force, Establish Permanent Manned Presence on the Moon, and Send the First Manned Mission to Mars

Dismantle Human Trafficking Networks

End Sanctuary Cities to Restore our Neighborhoods and Protect Our Families Prohibit American Companies From Replacing United States Citizens With Lower-Cost ForeignWorkers Require New Immigrants to Be Able to Support Themselves Financially [Here are six platform planks showing restraint – weird restraint. No one has ever been able to restrain Trump, least of all Trump himself. And yet restraint we've got. Where'd that come from? (And where'd The Wall go?) Trump has been accused, not without reason,

Build theWorld's Greatest Infrastructure System

Win the Race to 5G and Establish a National High-SpeedWireless Internet Network Continue to Lead theWorld in Access to the Cleanest DrinkingWater and Cleanest Air

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