Let’s pretend that you and I are American citizens.
Let’s imagine that the choice before us in November is between Trump or Biden.
A thug and almost bedridden.
Overwhelmed
Biden is unable to finish a coherent line of reasoning lasting more than a few seconds, is unable to remember the names of reporters assigned full-time to the White House.
And yet, I would vote for him, considering that I simply have no viable alternative.
I recognize one quality in him, however.
Unlike Justin Trudeau, convinced that he is the only one in the world to be right, Biden is capable of walking in his own paint.
In politics, changing your mind is not always a fault, especially when your idea leads you straight into a wall.
A reader whom I thank brings to my attention the following, taken from Telegraph British.
Those who pride themselves on “progressivism” had laughed a lot or were very indignant about the wall that Trump wanted to build on the Mexican border.
We mainly added fencing… which didn’t change anything.
Then, in 2020, remember, in the face of illegal immigration, Biden was the candidate of realistic compassion in the face of Trump’s populist demagoguery.
Biden would treat single children humanely, propose an administrative path towards the regularization of illegal immigrants on American soil for years, but he would be firm with false refugees, people with criminal records, etc.
Four years later, where are we?
Biden is asking Congress to grant him the power to close the southern border altogether because he considers it overwhelmed (“If that bill were the law today, I’d shut down the border right now“).
It’s crazy what reality can do to beautiful principles.
Are you sitting well?
In 2023, there were 2.05 million illegal entries at the U.S.-Mexico border.
There were 2.21 million in 2022.
This is more than the entire population of Montreal (1.7 million).
In January 2024, an average of 11,000 people crossed the border illegally every day!
As a bonus, we discover that far from all of them come from Mexico or Central America.
In 2023, there were 58,462 from Africa. Many flew to Ecuador and from there went north.
Hundreds die during this journey.
It is obviously powerful criminal groups who organize this human trafficking.
Moral
Not crazy, the American states bordering the Mexican border do not want to be alone in managing the crisis.
So we put a lot of these illegals on buses and send them to these cities in the North and East so quick to lecture the “rednecks”.
Even on the left, there is alarm at the impact on housing costs, on wages, on crime, etc. is no longer taboo.
Sometimes the problem with an idea is just being ahead of its time.