Saturday, February 29, 2020

Kirkpatrick: India Stripping Illegals’ Children of Citizenship—Hope Trump Notices! - "rather than imitating them, Trump is using the visit to make an identity-politics appeal to Indian-American voters who will never support him anyway"


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India’s massive welcome for President Donald J. Trump last week showed it will remain a real nation-state into the next century—while America probably won’t [India rolls out the MAGA carpet for Trumpby Anita Kumar, Politico, February 24, 2020]. 

Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government is implementing common-sense citizenship laws to protect India’s national identity. Much like China, India is consolidating itself as an empire with a solid ethno-religious core. Its laws provide a model for how a nationalist American government could undo at least some of the damage from decades of out-of-control immigration. 

But rather than imitating them, Trump is using the visit to make an identity-politics appeal to Indian-American voters who will never support him anyway. ...

https://vdare.com/articles/india-stripping-illegals-children-of-citizenship-hope-trump-notices