Immigrants should learn to love America… and so should we!

This summer, our beleaguered large screens volition invited the instrumentality of America’s astir celebrated amerciable alien: Superman. This overmuch needed reboot comes arsenic President Trump, who earned my vocal support, is rebooting our country’s immigration argumentation and civilization much broadly. 

The changing communicative of our archetypal superhero offers a mythological reflector connected the challenges we’re confronting arsenic a nation, from without and within. What should it mean to beryllium and go an American? How bash we spot ourselves, arsenic heroic oregon villainous? And however mightiness we forge a caller mode forward? I person a fewer ideas plucked consecutive from the political forbidden zone. 

Post-Truth, Social Justice, and the Anti-American Way 

Baby Clark Kent crash-landed successful America during our past large question of immigration successful the 1920s and 30s. And similar truthful galore caller Americans, including my ain Italian great-grandparents, helium embraced his caller location with gusto, coming to our defence against the Nazis and past the Communists. His motto reflects our highest values: Truth, Justice, and the American Way… astatine slightest it utilized to. 

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The past portion of our celebrated Kryptonian-American’s super-slogan, "the American Way," fell retired of favour successful caller decades with the emergence of anti-heroism and alleged "critical societal justice." Academia, entertainment, and the quality media made it their full-time jobs for decades to represent America and our past arsenic the world’s top supervillain.

Every facet of American culture has been nether siege. Our kids are present taught that our existent commencement arsenic a federation wasn’t 1776 with the Declaration of Independence, but 1619 with the accomplishment of the archetypal slaves successful an effort to represent a antecedently universal, and despicable, signifier arsenic uniquely American. So overmuch for "truth".

Having defeated the Nazis and the Soviets successful wars some blistery and cold, astir connected the near and adjacent immoderate connected the close present spot the US arsenic a too-often belligerent unit connected the satellite stage. Even Superman himself, successful Frank Miller’s bold and bleak 1986 graphic novels, was reduced to a cynical super-weapon of the subject concern complex, destined for decision by the Dark Knight. Justice died successful acheronian too. 

Our world-leading economic growth is decried arsenic a scourge connected the planet, producing a "climate crisis" that threatens to extinguish each mankind. Make that personkind, since the basal definitions of antheral and pistillate person travel nether assault, and with them, our kids intelligence wellness and aboriginal fertility overmuch to the convenient restitution of those aforesaid clime alarmists. 

And finally, pulling a leafage from the 2000 Superman comics, we’re told that Donald Trump is our existent beingness Lex Luthor, a corrupt billionaire fascist supervillain turned-president. 

It should travel arsenic nary astonishment that canvass aft canvass has recovered that patriotism, particularly among young Americans, has wholly collapsed. Axios recovered that lone 18% of 18-34-year-olds are "extremely proud" to beryllium American. That’s down from 85% successful 2013 earlier the woke reign of panic ramped up. A 67% drop! That aforesaid timeframe has besides seen a implicit illness successful perceived contention relations successful America, for similar, and likewise fraudulent reasons.

One of the ironies of our modern epoch is that arsenic our elite has poisoned our patriotism astatine home, we’ve besides seen much radical flood INTO this state from overseas than ever earlier successful our history! While blue-haired banshees connected TikTok and silly "studies" professors bash America astatine each turn, millions of mediocre and huddled masses, (mostly) yearning to beryllium free, person flooded into our alleged hell-hole. It’s a stark reminder that portion we’re building a wall to support radical out, really hellish countries wrecked by communism and its assorted "progressive" cousins person historically had to physique walls to support their ain radical IN.

And so, present we are arsenic Americans, conscionable similar Superman astatine the commencement of his newest large surface trailer: face-down successful the snow, beaten, and bloodied.

A Dark Night for America

"Make America Great Again" resonates with voters due to the fact that truthful galore Americans judge that our state is nary longer great. Too galore deliberation we ne'er were. Let’s beryllium clear: our state DOES look a flood of precise existent problems, each 1 is impacted by immigration, though the outcomes are taxable to good-faith disagreement. 

Last fall, I quixotically released a Hamilton-style musical, Battle of the Borders, that brought each of these issues connected some sides and much to beingness with the accumulation worth of a summertime superhero blockbuster. In moving done the details of the migration debate, I recovered my ain views shifting, though I stay much pro-immigration than galore of my chap Trumpian travelers. 

Millions of working-age men person near the labour unit adjacent arsenic immoderate measures suggest that a bulk of caller jobs person gone to immigrants. Yet galore (maybe most) economists hold that migration is simply a nett contributor to maturation and a almighty instrumentality for countering inflation. 

Crime is up crossed the country, yet immoderate statistic suggest that immigrants, including illegals, perpetrate little transgression than native-born citizens. That’s acold comfortableness to the victims of convulsive amerciable pack violence. And however overmuch should anyone spot these authorities statistic successful the archetypal place, fixed caller FBI revisionism? 

Our opioid epidemic is simply a humanitarian catastrophe destroying millions of lives and flooding our streets with the hopeless and homeless. But a large beauteous partition connected our confederate borderline won’t alteration the demand-side of the equation. Plus, our nation’s past of intoxicant prohibition has lessons we shouldn’t beryllium truthful speedy to forget. 

Meanwhile, cities crossed the state person seen their schools, hospitals, and shelters pushed beyond capableness by the Biden-era question of amerciable wide migration. Remember, our past large question of immigration, erstwhile Kal-El archetypal arrived successful Kansas, took spot earlier the dawn of the progressive payment state.

When adjacent the Democrat politician of Gotham City, Eric Adams, is informing that migrants volition destruct the city, we should astir apt instrumentality notice. 

Our Complicated Culture Matters Most

None of the immigration-related issues we look chopped arsenic heavy for the aboriginal of America arsenic our changing culture, which arsenic Andrew Breitbard noted is upstream of authorities and policy. And this is wherever my friends connected the close proclaiming "culture matters" request to clarify: which culture? 

Buchanan-style populists similar to constituent to our white, Western European past arsenic a usher for our future. But that Europe is simply a distant memory. A look astatine the beliefs of our mostly-white, politically engaged elite should springiness each patriot superior pause. I’m acrophobic the W successful WASP present stands for "woke". 

Consider that it mostly wasn’t Latin American immigrants who tore down statues of Abraham Lincoln during the BLM riots successful 2020 oregon dressed a George Washington statue up arsenic a Hamas combatant successful 2023. Those were our native-born and bred, college-indoctrinated kids who did that! While they were burning American cities aft their Starbucks shifts, 55% of Latino men were engaged voting to re-elect Mr. MAGA himself.

Mindset matters much than tegument colour oregon state of origin. 

Put bluntly, I’d gladly invited 2 hard-working caller Americans from Mexico successful speech for each 1 native-born America-hating sex studies postgraduate from Harvard. I’ll invited 10 much graduates from Guatemala’s Universidad Francisco Marroquín earlier considering a azygous censorious, terror-sympathetic Oxford Anglo. 

My constituent present is simple. We shouldn’t expect newcomers to assimilate into America and WANT to beryllium American… if our autochthonal civilization despises our country! The woke warriors person told america and our kids that we should hatred America. Their nihilistic cries for "land back" and "reparations" mightiness arsenic good say: travel connected successful and portion america for parts! We merit it! 

What a self-defeating mantra for newcomers to embrace! If that is our "way", we won’t beryllium a state for overmuch longer. Luckily, that tide is yet turning, if slowly.

A New American Way connected Immigration 

Most people, including President Trump, judge we request continued migration into America. Immigration successful wide has historically been bully for our state and inactive tin be. But the past 4 years of achromatic marketplace unfastened borders done willfully neglecting the instrumentality was ne'er tenable oregon just. 

Biden and Harris encouraged millions of radical to skip the line, travel to America done the backmost door, and stay successful the shadows with an unstable and uncertain future. And they’ve fto thousands of earnestly "bad hombres" successful on the way. That’s a supervillain determination if I’ve ever seen one, implicit with Joker-style laughter.

Protecting our citizens and sovereignty is the astir basal relation of government. I enactment President Trump’s efforts to reconstruct the regularisation of instrumentality astatine our borders. I besides anticipation that occurrence successful that effort volition laic the instauration for a much honorable statement implicit the ineligible way for aboriginal American immigrants. That volition impact making governmental compromises successful an epoch of polarization. 

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So here’s a imaginable argumentation compromise to consider: let’s prioritize much and easier imperishable ineligible residency and successful exchange, tightly restrict afloat citizenship and voting rights to natural-born Americans alone, on with cosmopolitan elector ID similar each different large civilized federation with aforesaid time ballot counts. 

While restricting the franchise to natural-born citizens whitethorn beryllium governmental Kryptonite, it would assistance depoliticize migration by eliminating migrants arsenic a voting bloc up for grabs. No much Tammany hallway benignant vote-buying by left-wingers oregon reactionary right-wing restrictions for fearfulness of an imported electorate! And besides, wherefore should immoderate newcomer get to alteration the rules of the crippled they conscionable joined? If you don’t similar our rules, don’t travel to play.

One happening is crystal clear: the migration statement is fundamentally a statement astir the aboriginal of American culture. Who are we, arsenic a nation? Which values should we cherish, promote, and expect newcomers to assimilate successful to? What is "The American Way"? We shouldn’t conscionable driblet that from our ace slogan. We request it and request it well-defined. 

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We don’t request to reinvent this wheel. America’s creed is the champion of Western Civilization: Freedom. Individual responsibility. Religious liberty, rooted successful Judeo-Christian values. Opportunity. Identity-blind equality nether the law. Local authority. Voluntary association. 

This is what Truth, Justice, and the American Way means to me. This is what newcomers should beryllium expected to embrace. And here’s hoping that, similar Superman, it’s astir to marque a comeback.