Speaking in Conroe, Texas, last weekend, former President Donald Trump accused his successor of allowing millions of migrants to enter the country illegally across our Southern border.
“The most important border … for us is not Ukraine’s border but America’s border,” thundered Trump.
“Before Joe Biden sends any troops to defend a border in Europe, he should be sending troops to defend our border right here in Texas.”
Thus did Trump not only frame a compelling issue for the fall election; he has framed an issue that touches on one of the great and deepening divides of our time.
Which matters more — the defense of our country from an invasion of migrants from the Third World, or the defense of the borders of distant nations that have little or nothing to do with the security or survival of the United States?
Why should who rules the Russified Donbas be America’s concern?
This “border issue” feeds into other Republican issues.
For the border crossers seen on national TV appear to be mostly young men, who will likely contribute to the crime crisis of shootings and killings plaguing America’s cities.
Illegal immigration is also the ways and means by which illegal drugs enter the United States. Last year, 100,000 Americans, most of them young, died of overdoses, with two-thirds of these Americans succumbing to fentanyl that is produced in China and comes through Mexico.
Trump’s framing of the issue as between the foreign borders we defend and America’s border that we do not also divides the GOP.
The interventionist wing of the party seeks a confrontation with Vladimir Putin’s Russia, while America First nationalists urge a refocus of U.S. troops and resources to our own bleeding southern border.
And illegal migration is rising as an issue not only in the United States but across Europe.
In France, the four leading presidential candidates — incumbent Emmanuel Macron, nationalist Marine Le Pen, the center-right candidate Valerie Pecresse and the far-right candidate Eric Zemmour — are all making the invasion of Europe an issue, and taking a tougher line.
Over the same weekend that Trump spoke in Texas, the leaders of two NATO nations that border Ukraine headed to Madrid for a gathering titled “Defend Europe.” The threat that brought them to the Spanish capital was not Russia’s military presence on Ukraine’s borders.
Reports The New York Times:
“Instead of tackling the Russian threat to Europe’s eastern frontier, the meeting attended by the prime ministers of Poland and Hungary, Mateusz Morawiecki and Viktor Orban, focused on what the populist leaders cite as their most pressing threats: immigration, demographic decline and the European Union … ”
“France’s far-right presidential candidate Marine Le Pen, an outspoken fan of the Kremlin, was also at the two-day conclave … ”
“A declaration issued after the Madrid gathering made no mention of Ukraine. … It instead stressed the need to form a united front in favor of ‘family policies,’ Christianity and keeping out immigrants. The European Union, the statement said, had become ‘detached from reality,’ leading to ‘demographic suicide.'”
In brief, while Western elites are alarmed about the borders of Ukraine and Kremlin encroachments, much of Europe is more concerned about its own moral, cultural and demographic decline — abortion, LGBT rights, low birth rates and the death of Christianity.
Europe is in danger of dying, these people believe.
These Europeans are concerned that the nations and peoples their ancestors and fathers knew are going out of existence. Their greater fear is not of Putin’s Russia but of an EU superstate whose dominance leads inexorably to the decline and disappearance of distinct ethnic nations.
To the leaders of Hungary and Poland and the traditionalist and populist right-wing parties of Europe, nationality matters more than political systems.
Hungary’s Viktor Orban, for example, does not regard Putin’s Russia as an enemy of his country, and provides economic incentives for Hungarian families to have more children.
Consider. If the birth rates of the ethnic groups that historically have made up the nations of Europe are now below replacement levels, 2.1 children per woman, these peoples will become minorities in their own countries and eventually die out.
Extinction beckons.
Why should the inhabitants of these nations care about the borders of other countries, if their own countries are slowly passing away?
And why should the future inhabitants of Europe from Africa and Asia in year 2100, who will inherit, populate and rule these lands, care about the old borders created by the history of yesterday’s Europeans?
As the peoples of Europe are divided between those who fear demographic death in the long run and those who fear autocratic Russian dominance in the near term, so, too, are Americans divided.
Our ruling class, to whom the world struggle is between autocracy and democracy, are willing to fight for the triumph of the latter over the former.
The other half of America is more concerned with the character and composition of their own nation, present and future, which also appears to be passing away.
Patrick J. Buchanan is the author of “Nixon’s White House Wars: The Battles That Made and Broke a President and Divided America Forever.” To find out more about Patrick Buchanan and read features by other Creators writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators website at www.creators.com.
While Americans are backing President Trump to protect us from invasions foreign and domestic, liberals are crying about people in other countries. Has anyone out there seen any politician or elitists or any of the domestic terrorists open there homes or bank accounts to take illegals in and foot the bill for their keep? Unholywood elitists & politicians have enormous homes that could house thousands and yet they expect middle class America to provide room and board! And take away our only means of protection in the meantime.
AND when you break it down, THE ONE MAIN THING OUR government exists to do, is “TO DEFEND OUR NATION AND OUR PEOPLE”… IF THEY CAN’T or won’t do that, WHY THEN do we bloody well, NEED the govt!
Send the tanks from Fort Hood into Mexico for pincer movements about all the Drug Sanctuary cites that are getting rich off Fentanyl and Heroine and send all the drugs Lords to Gitmo. Then withdraw and tell Mexico to shape up, stop the immigrations, stop the death dealing drugs or we come back twice as strong, and you lose more land than the Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo. It’s time the USA again become the victor instead of the victim in these mindless border disputes that could be settled in 2 weeks if we had not leaders with mush for brains, and raisins for stones. Time we began to act, instead of just reacting to the evil that comes our way. Just don’t let Joe lead the troops or design the next retreat.
Run continual carpet bombing ops, with nalpalm, on cartel territory!
While the Biden administration, and Liberals as a whole, are pro-immigration—it is interesting how they deride the country and make apologies for it. They drag the US through the mud, yet they want more and more people to come into the country.
It is understandable why so many people want to come to the US, but there is no way we can accommodate all who want to come here—and it is dangerous to admit hordes of people without knowing anything about them. The drain placed upon our resources is overwhelming. Natural-born citizens should be the first to benefit from the freedoms and opportunities, but the present administration wants to reward illegals ahead of legitimate citizens and expect taxpayers to foot the bill and embrace a constant inflow of people from other countries.
Trump is right—we have to defend our own borders first and foremost. Liberals try to play on emotion and sympathy, but it goes far deeper than that and there is a stiff price to pay for unchecked open borders.
The people who want to destroy our Country with open borders: The communist Democrats, the RINOS and the dumbed down liberal voters. The above named are corrupt, criminal traitors to the American people and to our Constitution!
And to me, the suckier part of it all, is how it seems those in CHARGE< elected by WE THE PEOPLE< seem to care more for the 'rights' and privileges, of ILLEGAL INVADERS, than they do the CITIZENS that elected them…
“Which matters more — the defense of our country from an invasion of migrants from the Third World, or the defense of the borders of distant nations that have little or nothing to do with the security or survival of the United States?”
The treasonous, dishonest, destructive, socialist Democrat Party is seeing the educated Blacks and other races wising up to the Democrat Party’s destructive, racist cons and are no longer supporting the Democrat Party.
Thus the desperate Democrat Party must replace them with illegal immigrants by encouraging, protecting, supporting and secretly transporting illegal immigrants around our country. Note that California, Oregan, Washington State and New York have passed laws that allow illegal immigrants to vote.
These Dishonorable liberal Democrat Party’s phony anti-racist crusades have little or nothing to do with protecting the sensitivities of Black Americans and everything to do with the Democrats setting themselves up as their saviors. Their practice of patronizing groups cannot yield to the facts that the Democrat Party has a long history of racial discrimination. The Democrat Party’s cause is not defending the oppressed or the offended but about making themselves look wonderful with their latest destructive political Con.
The Democrat Party wins most of their followers because they are ill-informed or low intellect.
Democrat’s propaganda or narrative works on an emotional level, not on the intellect level.