https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j4vuUfnTEkg

The U.S. economy is inextricably intertwined and very dependent on these people. Deporting them would cause severe food shortages, bankrupt restaurants, etc.

But given that the Trumpkins are eager to destroy America, I’m sure it will remain high on their agenda.

Not to mention that the increase in costs to businesses in employing legal employees would be crippling (even to Trump enterprises).

Expect lots of blaming the left and Democrats.

Of course Trump has the causes all wrong, too. The Rust Belt was already being called the Rust Belt by the early 1980s, a decade or so before NAFTA was negotiated. Songs like Billy Joel’s “Allentown” (1982) and Bruce Springsteen’s “My Hometown” (1984) captured the sense of futility that comes with de-industrialization. But for Trump voters, that history has been retconned out of existence.

True, especially that final sentence: I have an nephew-in-law who is convinced that his business’ bankruptcy was entirely due to President Obama’s policies. His business went belly up in the first quarter of 2007.

While Trump may not feel personally dispossessed by global powers, his rhetoric appeals to people who DO feel that way.

QFT. Trump has given these people scapegoats: the anti-Semitism has so far only been dogwhistled, but the anti-Mexican, anti-Muslim, and anti-black rhetoric could hardly be more explicit. AFAICT, most Jews, Asians, and non-Cuban Hispanics understood this message as, “We’ll be coming for you, too, eventually” (the Jews in particular have a strong rational basis for this fear). Of course Trump can’t keep the promises he made: the jobs aren’t coming back, and the logistics of deporting 11 million undocumented immigrants just aren’t in place. But the rhetoric is still attractive to people who want to live in the 1950s.

Of course Trump has the causes all wrong, too. The Rust Belt was already being called the Rust Belt by the early 1980s, a decade or so before NAFTA was negotiated. Songs like Billy Joel’s “Allentown” (1982) and Bruce Springsteen’s “My Hometown” (1984) captured the sense of futility that comes with de-industrialization. But for Trump voters, that history has been retconned out of existence.

The Nazis’ ideology is far less interesting than the behaviour of the non-Nazi majority which delivered power to this tiny political sect through their decisions – and lack of decisions.

Ultimately, the German population in 1932 and 1933 had had enough and voted en masse in favour of the Nazis’ clear and simple messages.

If there is a lesson in all of this, it goes a lot deeper than a shallow comparison of Trump with Hitler; and I believe many people have been warning of this for the last decade or more: the more dysfunctional our political class becomes, the more mis-ruled we all feel to be, the more attractive become simple and clear messages.

Obama did a great job at staving off popular insurrection at the polls, but the Democrats’ decision to propose Clinton achieved Trump’s desired effect.

http://www.theatlantic.com/notes/all/2016/05/the-daily-trump/484064/