Senior adviser @America_2100. "Good things are easily destroyed, but not easily created." 🇺🇸
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The hit was supposed to be about our reporting in Charleroi, Pennsylvania—where we've spent the past week, on the ground, reporting on the consequences of a flood of Haitian immigrants into the small working-class town. (See below).
[when presented with evidence that said person isn't representative of said group writ large]
I wrote this, on the topic of Haitian immigration, back in March:
Imagine the Romans meeting the barbarians at the gates and going, "I have read about some of your countries and it was scary. I understand why you left. But there's a huge cultural difference. So if you want to be part of this great city then you need to understand our culture."
Well, we probably wouldn't sanction them for persecuting people who use "Nazi phrases," specifically, because "we"—i.e., the people who run our foreign policy—approve of wielding state power to crush the so-called "far right." But the speech laws in principle would be condemned.
The other thing is, the overall Gen Z numbers are almost certainly concealing a far more drastic rightwards shift among boys.
The “traditional American values” in question — or at least, the very specific versions of them that Ian is referring to — are only “traditional” if you think the country began in 1960. But other than that, no notes 
As I noted in this column, all signs point to an extinction event for the Tories in this year's election — almost entirely because of this issue.
It was one of the more surreal moments in my college experience: Standing in a crowded room of a hundred kids — the hockey guys forced to sit in chairs in the middle — I felt like I was the only person in the world who hadn't completely lost their mind.
This isn't just embellished rhetoric. Every single year, groups like the ADL put together studies purporting to prove that "hate" is at an all-time high, which are then fed to the media and repeated everywhere until it becomes conventional wisdom
It's difficult to think of another Western country with a larger ideological gap between the people and the elites. Every single poll consistently shows the Irish people overwhelmingly want less immigration, for example — but the Irish elites are uniformly in favor of more.
There are various "radical federalism" options that could, in the event of total breakdown, be amenable. But the long and short of it is that — even if you think it sounds desirable in the abstract (and I don't) — there really is no viable exit plan. The only way out is through.
Various people have made this point already in the context of the debate over the Satanic display in Iowa, but the idea that our "Founding principles" compel us to accept these provocations is absurd. This wouldn't have even been a subject of debate with the Founding generation. 
