The Case for Trump 2024: Immigration

I have regrets about 2020.

My biggest regret is being so disillusioned and angry with Donald Trump and influenced by retarded activists that I downplayed the damage that Joe Biden could do as president. He had failed to build the wall. He had failed to withdraw troops from Syria and Afghanistan. He had failed to stop internet censorship. He had failed to stop the George Floyd riots, and so on.

There were plenty of legitimate reasons to be angry and disillusioned with Trump in 2020, but I think I was focused on that at the expense of looking ahead to the future. Joe Biden won the 2020 election and we got the worst inflation in a generation, a tsunami of 10 million illegal aliens crossing the border, a genocide in Gaza, wars erupting in the Middle East, a war with Russia in Ukraine, thousands of people sent to the gulag over January 6, even worse censorship, a weaponized justice system, etc. Were it not for Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema sacrificing their careers to preserve the filibuster, we would have gotten a mass amnesty for illegal aliens, a Weimar Republic level of inflation, the John Lewis Voting Rights Act and all sorts of other evil bills that passed the House under Pelosi and died a quiet death in the Senate.

In particular, the three things that still bother me the most are 1.) the 10 million illegal aliens let into the country by Biden, 2.) the horrific death toll in Ukraine and 3.) ordinary people losing around 20% of their purchasing power. I can’t say with confidence that this would have also happened under Trump. I do not think Trump and a Republican Senate in 2021 would have hit the gas pedal on spending and done the American Rescue Plan. I do not think our foreign relations with Russia under Trump would have been aggravated to the point that Putin would have invaded Ukraine. I also do not believe that Trump would have intentionally blown up the border in January and February 2021 like Biden.

I’m voting for Trump in 2024 because I am not going to have this on my conscience: 

My vote doesn’t matter.

I could easily sit this one out in Alabama and preserve my principles.

In light of what Joe Biden has already done and what Kamala Harris will undoubtedly do, I think it is importantly to publicly say one of these terms is not like the other. I am going to side with the immigration restrictionists this time because I fully aware of the consequences of not doing so.

On June 28th, I was still debating in my head how to proceed in the fall when this happened:

I was driving my wife’s car and running some errands when an illegal alien from Venezuela with a fake name and no insurance slammed into me at a red light. He got out of the car and shoved his smartphone in my face. He was using some kind of translation app. The cop let him go with a ticket.

Fortunately, I had savings, insurance and gap insurance and we were able to scramble and get my wife a new car in mid-July, but it still cost me thousands of dollars. I could sue this person who is one of the millions of people who Joe Biden has let into this country, but it would be a complete waste of my time. These people blow in from town and town and he is probably long gone now.

It could have been a lot worse. I focused on the things that I was grateful for … I wasn’t killed or injured, I was able to get a new car, my wife, son and baby were not in the car, the illegal alien wasn’t hurt, etc. The incident was a reminder though that the “worse is better” approach to politics has far worse consequences for other people. It is much “worse” for all the people who are raped, killed, robbed, fail to get jobs, have their wages depressed, their towns overrun and destroyed by illegal aliens. Those people are harmed a lot worse than me by foolish decisions which have disastrous downstream consequences.

I think allowing 10 million people into the country over the past four years was a preventable evil that could have been avoided by voting for Trump in 2020. The same is true of the next 10 to 20 million that Kamala Harris will usher across the border. I do not buy into the nonsense coming from activists that Trump’s immigration record would have been as bad as Joe Biden’s record. I do not believe that Trump and Kamala Harris will have the same immigration policy or that their supporters are equivalent.

Every dumb statement that Trump makes on immigration can be weighed against the overwhelming pressure coming from his base to restrict immigration and the incentives on the Republican side in Congress. The sane activist groups out there like NumbersUSA will criticize Trump and pressure him to appoint personnel to federal agencies who will restrict legal and illegal immigration.

I haven’t even bothered to look into what Trump has vowed to do on immigration. He has promised to do all sorts of things this time around like carry out the largest deportation program in history. He talks about ending birthright citizenship. None of this in my view really matters and his agenda will inevitably run into the same obstacles in the federal courts and Congress. What matters is the enormous gap between what Trump intends to do and what his base wants and what the Democratic side wants to do which is to destroy immigration enforcement and flood the country with a brown tidal wave.

In his first term, the Trump administration intended to restrict immigration and policy after policy was swamped in a legal quagmire by NGOs suing in federal court. They finally came up with the Remain in Mexico policy and succeeding in bringing both legal and illegal immigration levels down in 2020. In stark contrast, the Biden administration intended from Day One to dismantle immigration enforcement, which he got started on within hours of being sworn in on his first day as president. It was also not simply COVID which brought down immigration which is a lie that is repeated by activists. Immigration levels exploded under Biden during the worst stretch of COVID in 2021 and 2022. Border crossings have finally come down since Biden issued that executive order because of his disastrous poll numbers.

The bottom line is that I would rather put up with Trump’s failures on immigration and Boomer posting on X and Truth Social than find out what Kamala Harris intends to do on immigration. I can say definitively that Trump’s immigration policy will not be anywhere close to as awful as Kamala Harris’s immigration policy given the distance between activists and public opinion on the two sides. Most importantly, I am unwilling to inflict even more harm on communities that are already suffering from Joe Biden’s immigration policy because “worse is better” and other activist nonsense.

As usual, the point of this article is to explain my own thinking because otherwise you would not understand the shifts in my position. I am not telling you to vote for Donald Trump. You are capable of making your own decisions. This is my attempt to flesh out my own inner monologue.

1. The Right finally moves on from Trump in 2028

2. The Alt-Right has terrible political instincts

3. Joe Biden has been a sedative as president

4. Activist brain blinds us and creates prejudice against conservative normies

5. Trump is the leader because he is the best of the Republicans

6. “Worse is better” is a cope and was tried in 2020 and maintains the status quo

7. Voting is not a sacrament. Few know this

8. Voting is not going to change anything about Zionism in the next four years

9. Activists have the chance to ride the Trump wave without making the same mistakes

10. Activists are running out of material because the Overton Window has shifted so much

11. Donald Trump is a hunted dog who has been backed into a corner

12. Donald Trump is a divider, not a uniter and his legacy will ultimately be useful for us

13. Winning is still better than losing at baseline

14. The Left is still the enemy and wants to take away our freedoms

15. The cause of anti-Zionism depends on internet free speech

16. Donald Trump is reviled by our elites because he is an obstacle to their agenda

17. Donald Trump’s Supreme Court appointments have been improving his legacy

18. The war in Ukraine showed that Biden is worse on foreign policy than Trump

19. Joe Biden’s economic policy and foreign policy unleashed a tsunami of inflation

20. Political pornography is warping the minds of activists and leaving them disabled

21. Trump is under tremendous political pressure from his base to restrict immigration. Kamala Harris is not and will flood the country with Third World immigrants

Source: https://occidentaldissent.com/2024/08/25/the-case-for-trump-2024-immigration/