Our enemies aren’t as dumb as they seem

Having listened to multiple reports from Republican commentators about how Joe Biden and his handlers are pursuing a disastrous border policy, I’m still not sure the Democrats have shot themselves in the foot. They may, in fact, benefit from allowing our southern border to be flooded by millions of illegal aliens.

Above all, the border crisis helps them advance their obvious goal of creating a one-party state, providing the illegal immigrants can be registered expeditiously as voting citizens — something that blue-state governments will no doubt hasten to do.

Just because polls show more than 60% of Americans disapprove of Biden’s management of the border does not pose for Democrats an insurmountable obstacle. Those who don’t mind a broken southern border, including the 18% of those polled who actually approve of this situation, are core Democratic voters. Biden certainly hasn’t lost them by flooding the country with illegal aliens, including drug traffickers and terrorists.

He and his handlers have also noticed they did fantastically well in the last two elections. Even with an already broken border, they were able to mobilize their now-customary base of unmarried and usually college-educated women, urban black voters, and government workers. They also succeeded in making those elections about Trump, January 6, and “reproductive rights.”

The Democrats also easily outspent the Republicans, thanks to massive funding that the Democrats received from corporate capitalists, investment bankers, teachers’ unions, and Hollywood moguls.

Lots of Republicans, cheered on by their news sources, are prematurely celebrating what may still be an elusive victory.

Why should this year, Democrats may be reasoning, be any different from the recent past? Aren’t they already awash in big donations?

They might be on to something. In my state of Pennsylvania, incumbent Democratic Senator Robert Casey Jr., who is up for re-election in November, is ahead of his likely Republican rival, David McCormick, by 10 points, according to a recent Quinnipiac poll. Although McCormick stresses an issue that should help him — broken borders — his campaign is floundering.

Casey and his advisers have discovered they can avoid mischief by pretending the “border crisis” does not exist. And even if one does exist, the Republicans can be made the heavies since they won’t support “reform,” meaning a blanket amnesty for all illegal aliens who have already broken the law to get here.

Finally, it’s highly unlikely that those blue areas that are complaining loudly about having illegal immigrants dumped on them will change their party loyalties in record numbers by November. Does anyone believe that all those Democrats who voted for Kathy Hochul in New York, Gavin Newsom in California, and J.B. Pritzker in Illinois will now start voting Republican? Will the denizens of Philadelphia, Atlanta, Chicago, Washington, or Los Angeles undergo a mass political conversion because they are upset about high crime and having their “sanctuary cities” invaded by illegal aliens? Dream on!

Trump in the presidential race may peel off a somewhat higher percentage of the black vote than he obtained in 2020. But the idea that inner-city voters will move en masse toward the other national party in the next few months seems highly implausible.

Many such voters may end up agreeing with Biden’s deputy campaign manager, Quentin Fulks, a black political activist from Atlanta, who blames the Republicans and Trump for the “border confusion.” According to Fulks, the Democrats are being unfairly castigated for the policies of “MAGA extremists” who refuse to vote for “border reform.”

Trump hates immigrants and locks up their children in cages, or so Fulks explained to Bret Baier on Fox News last week. It makes no difference that this narrative is nonsense. What may matter is that minority voters will likely believe this fabrication because it justifies continued loyalty to the party for which their families have always voted.

If urban populations do become disturbed enough about the influx of illegal aliens to think twice about voting for Biden, then the Democrats will blame red-state governors who send migrants to northern cities. Of course, they will also tell their voters that any attempt to stop the flow of illegal immigration is based on “racism,” a charge that the corporate press has been pushing vigorously.

Moreover, if Trump or any other Republican wrests an electoral victory from our authorized state party, then the Democrats will never allow the incoming president to deport future voters. Party operatives and their media handmaidens will incite riots to prevent Hitler’s ghost from returning.

For those of my readers who think that I make such dire predictions out of schadenfreude, let me assure them that I don’t. Like them, I believe the Democrats want total control over us and are peddling social policies that will ruin future generations.

But the fact that we find our opponents profoundly despicable does not mean they are destined to lose. They are where they are because they are clever — and many in the other party would rather not fight and, therefore, keep mumbling nonsense about “common ground.” Equally unhelpful, lots of Republicans, cheered on by their news sources, are prematurely celebrating what may still be an elusive victory.