Dennis Prager Discusses the Article by Bret Stephens: The case for Trump ... by someone who wants him to lose
b'Dennis Prager Discusses the Article by Bret Stephens: The case for Trump \\u2026 by someone who wants him to lose\\nDennis Prager Podcasts\\nMLK Day\\n\\xa0Jan 15 2024\\xa0\\xa0\\nOther Episodes\\nMartin Luther King deserves his own special holiday. But so do George Washington and Abraham Lincoln\\u2026 Bret Stephens, a full-on Trump despiser, makes (to his great credit) an excellent case as to why so many Americans find the former president to be such an attractive candidate\\u2026 The world of the left is the world of lies. Dennis continues with his deconstruction of Brett Stephens\\u2019 brave NY Times column explaining Trump\\u2019s appeal to at least half of America. Dennis talks to Jeff Barke, MD. Internal Medicine doctor in Newport Beach, CA. His new book is Morning Message - Dispelling the Myths You\\u2019ve Been Told about Optimal Health.\\n\\xa0Thanks for listening to the Daily Dennis Prager Podcast. To hear the entire three hours of my radio show as a podcast, commercial-free every single day, become a member of Pragertopia. You\\u2019ll also get access to 15 years\\u2019 worth of archives, as well as daily show prep. Subscribe today at Pragertopia dot com.\\n\\xa0--------------------------------------------------------------------------\\xa0\\xa0\\nArticle mentioned- \\nBret Stephens: The case for Trump \\u2026 by someone who wants him to lose\\nBy Bret Stephens The New York Times.\\nJan 14, 2024\\n\\xa0\\nBarring a political miracle or an act of God, it is overwhelmingly likely that Donald Trump will again be the Republican Party\\u2019s nominee for president. Assuming the Democratic nominee in the fall is Joe Biden, polls show Trump with a better-than-even chance of returning to the White House next year.\\nLord help us. What should those of us who have consistently opposed him do?\\nYou can\\u2019t defeat an opponent if you refuse to understand what makes him formidable. Too many people, especially progressives, fail to think deeply about the enduring sources of his appeal \\u2014 and to do so without calling him names, or disparaging his supporters, or attributing his resurgence to nefarious foreign actors or the unfairness of the Electoral College. Since I will spend the coming year strenuously opposing his candidacy, let me here make the best case for Trump that I can.\\nBegin with fundamentals. Trump got three big things right \\u2014 or at least more right than wrong.\\nArguably the single most important geopolitical fact of the century is the mass migration of people from south to north and east to west, causing tectonic demographic, cultural, economic and ultimately political shifts. Trump understood this from the start of his presidential candidacy in 2015, the same year Europe was overwhelmed by a largely uncontrolled migration from the Middle East and Africa. As he said the following year, \\u201cA nation without borders is not a nation at all. We must have a wall. The rule of law matters!\\u201d\\nMany of Trump\\u2019s opponents refuse to see virtually unchecked migration as a problem for the West at all. Some of them see it as an opportunity to demonstrate their humanitarianism. Others look at it as an inexhaustible source of cheap labor. They also have the habit of denouncing those who disagree with them as racists. But enforcing control at the border \\u2014 whether through a wall, a fence or some other mechanism \\u2014 isn\\u2019t racism. It\\u2019s a basic requirement of statehood and peoplehood, which any nation has an obligation to protect and cherish.\\nOnly now, as the consequences of Biden\\u2019s lackadaisical approach to mass migration have become depressingly obvious on the sidewalks and in the shelters and public schools of liberal cities like New York and Chicago, are Trump\\u2019s opponents on this issue beginning to see the point. Public services paid by taxes exist for people who live here, not just anyone who makes his way into the country by violating its laws. A job market is structured by rules and regulations, not just an endless supply of desperate laborers prepared to work longer for less. A national culture is sustained by common memories, ideals, laws and a la'