The Nativist Delusion and The Letter

If you ever watched The X-Files when it was on back in the day, you will be very familiar with the poster that hangs in Agent Mulder's office of a UFO hovering over the landscape with the bold caption: I WANT TO BELIEVE. In our current time of nonsense, I find myself drifting more and more to the position of I DON'T WANT TO BELIEVE, because every time the internet gets all riled up over some sign that our populist fever is breaking or some indication that there's a scandal that might finally have the current President dead to rights, it never seems to go anywhere. But very quietly, I'm starting to wonder about the following: 1. The Nativist Delusion: Real Or Cope? Illegal immigrants have become the Right's answer for every social ill, in much the same way that structural racism was blamed for every social ill by the Left at the height of Woke. We can slice and dice Medicaid and Medicare because it's costing so much because of all the illegals on it. Can't f...