CAIRCO Note: Many good things have been said about former President George H.W. Bush. Here, Michelle Malkin discusses some crucial aspects of his presidency.
Michelle Malkin described former President George H. W. Bush’s legacy as an impoverishment of American workers and growing of the “deep state,” offering her remarks in a Monday interview with Breitbart Senior Editors-at-Large Rebecca Mansour and Joel Pollak on SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Tonight....
Malkin continued, “The lesson of the Bush regime and the Bush dynasty is something that impoverishes the American worker. It grows the deep state at the expense of small businesses and liberty...
Malkin added, “The elitism of the Bush wing of the [Republican] party is what Trump defeated, and I think [Donald Trump] has to remember that’s why he’s in the office — because of the adamant rejection of that attitude and those policies. I’m distressed that once again, we have these open borders amnesty Bush Republican Party-type business as usual tactics in dealing with the border wall funding. They’re going to wait ’til the Friday before Christmas? This is disgraceful.”
Malkin reflected on YouTube’s censorship of a 2006 video she produced critiquing Islamic terrorism while discussing broader political censorship technology companies such as Facebook, Google, and Twitter imposed....
... One reason Bush was a catastrophe that I did not discuss with Friedman: immigration. Here I draw on another conversation, this time with Brian Griffiths, Chief Policy Adviser to Britain's Prime Minister Thatcher, held in about 1990 and never previously published.
Griffiths had just come up to New York from Washington D.C., where he had met with Bush officials. He told me with amazement that, while talking about the then-ongoing NAFTA negotiations with Mexico, they had calmly told him that, in order to allay Mexico's fears that removing its corn price supports would massively displace agricultural workers, they had privately assured the Mexican officials that the U.S. was prepared to tolerate an increase in illegal immigration.
This, of course, was the absolute opposite of the line that the Bushies were feeding gullible Conservatism Inc. ideologues...
The Bush negotiators aimed at "managed trade." American agribusiness, big donors but notoriously self-interested and shortsighted, wanted to disable its competitors and clear its path to Mexican corn consumers. So the Bushies did it for them.
This is a huge scandal....
A hemispheric common maket, with free movement of labor, good and capital, would mean an America of slums and gated communities. But the Bushes were fine with that. They already live in gated communities....
