Top-Voted NyT Comment About Immigration Bodes Well For Midterms

Some liberals genuinely get it, and that could mean wonders for our 2018 midterm chances.

The New York Times ran a column this week from Thomas B. Edsall about President Donald Trump’s immigration proposal that triggered some fascinating responses from its “progressive” readers.

One top-voted comment in particular that received almost 250 votes from the Times‘ readers and a “Pick” from the Times‘ editorial staff especially took me by surprise.

“The notion that ‘this is a nation of immigrants and therefore….’ should not be driving current policy,” wrote Peter from Connecticut. “This was a nation of dinosaurs, then Native Americans, then slave owners. To have policies based on what worked in the past is not realistic.”

“This is now a nation of too many people, with a disappearing middle class. We don’t need lots more immigrants, Norwegian or otherwise. Of course we should still have some — but we should run this country for our benefit, not the benefit of the world’s tired and hungry, and of course the middle class, pushed into poverty over the last few decades, thinks what the Democrats propose is too indiscriminate.”

“Trump (the Republican Party, actually) hasn’t ‘got’ Democrats fight where he wants them,” he added, referencing Edsall’s claim that Trump’s clever immigration proposal has Democrats by the balls.

“Democrats are in a place they chose, and it suits him. He recognized the hole they dug for themselves, but he didn’t dig it.”

That a reader of The New York Times wrote something this wise — and that nearly 250 other leftist Times‘ readers liked it — has got to bode well for us.

Regarding his remark about the hole Democrats have “dug for themselves,” here’s some additional reporting from the Conservative Tribune:

Following the president’s State of the Union address, CBS News published a poll revealing that a majority of Americans support the president’s wall.

“Do you favor or oppose building a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border?” the specific poll question, which was reportedly asked prior to the SOTU address, asked. A 59 percent majority chose “Favor,” while a 41 percent minority selected “Oppose.”

… Poll questions asked after the SOTU address found that a 97 percent majority of Republicans, 72 percent of Independents and even 43 percent of Democrats approved of the president’s speech, which is telling given that Trump specifically mentioned the wall during it. …

He also described his plan to implement “a merit-based immigration system … that admits people who are skilled, who want to work, who will contribute to our society, and who will love and respect our country,” and end chain migration.

Americans overwhelmingly support the president on immigration, as demonstrated by both Peter’s comment and the statistics above, and while this doesn’t guarantee we’ll crush the Democrats come November, it at least gives me hope.