High Plains Populism

A nation in which one administration can allow millions of unvetted illegal migrants into the country, but requires that a court vet each deportation decision in an individually adjudicated case will soon lose the values our democratic system was intended to preserve.^<1>

~ Bill Ackman.

I’m not sure what Mr. Ackman means by “the values our democratic system was intended to preserve.”  My guess is that he’s referring to the procedures we’ve provided for to deal with citizens who decide to violate our laws. 

The criminal justice systems we have are vast, cumbersome, and unbelievably expensive and they are meant to deal with strictly domestic transgressions by citizens, legal residents, or illegals.  That is, deal with transgressions of domestic laws exclusive of the ones that govern immigration, lawful or unlawful.  Illegals who traffic in drugs, drive drunk, or murder are entitled to the protections of the criminal law regardless of their immigration status.  The possible punishments for criminal behavior are severe and we behave accordingly because that’s who we are.  Denial of entry or deportation are not in that category of offense and while deportation might entail a measure of inconvenience for illegals already inside the border.

There’s a related concept here we should consider.  Those millions of migrants chose to come in over the border, knowing full well that such entry to the United States was contrary to our laws.  So it’s simply stupefying that any American citizen would argue that any migrant who has deliberately chosen to ignore our laws should be able to claim the benefit of those laws when he is apprehended and ejected. 

Act like an outlaw; don’t beg for the protections of the laws you spurn.

Notes.
^<1>Quoted in “Wednesday Potpourri,” by Stuart Schneiderman, Had Enough Therapy, 4/23/25

“Here’s this man who’s a revolutionary, who’s famous, who’s handsome, who’s young, who’s smart, he’s a person who seems like he’s this morally good man, which is hard to find.”^<1>

~ Taylor Lorenz, a disgrace to nitwits everywhere, musing about Luigi Mangine, the man who gunned down UnitedHealthcare CEO, Brian Thompson, last December.

Notes.
^<1>“Hours After Taylor Lorenz Gushes Over ‘Handsome Revolutionary’ UNH Killer, Intruder Arrested At HQ.” By Tyler Durden, ZeroHedge, 4/14/25.

[UAW union chief] Shawn Fain emphasized that [Ross] Perot was right: “Since NAFTA’s inception in 1993, we’ve lost 90,000 manufacturing facilities in this country. Millions of jobs.”^<1>

Millions of jobs. Someone remind me how this was supposed to help Americans. Donald Trump gets it. We are under no obligation to weaken or degrade our own country because foreigners can’t govern themselves.

Notes.
^<1>“UAW Boss Sides With Trump On Tariffs, Stuns MSNBC Panel.” By Tyler Durden, ZeroHedge, 4/14/25.

Trudeau — finally – met his well-deserved political end and now the Liberal Party has replaced him with . . . well, a carbon copy of Trudeau. Way to go Canadian Liberals!

As French statesman and diplomat Tallyrand is said to have observed of the Bourbons, “They learned nothing and forgot nothing,” As Google AI put it, he was “referring to the Bourbon kings’ perceived inflexibility and inability to adapt after the French Revolution . . . .”

Unfortunately, it’s back to the future, but with Canada this time.

Canadians have a new prime minister. After a leadership election in the ruling Liberal Party, it’s out with the woke globalist, Justin Trudeau, and in with the woke globalist, Mark Carney.

Extraordinarily, in an age where justified populist rage against an out-of-touch establishment is spreading across the globe, Canadians have ended up with a leader who embodies that very establishment. In many ways, Carney is the technocrat’s technocrat. A bone fide citizen of nowhere.

The new Canadian PM’s CV reads like a parody of an archetypal Davos man. . . . ^<1>

In the second century AD, the Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius thought that in choosing how to live it’s best to be like a wrestler and thus be ready for anything that comes at you from any quarter. Meditations, VII, 33 (p. 84). The Western political elites need to internalize this thought. J.D. Vance schooled the Europeans on this by pointing out that the real danger to Europe was from within not from any external source. The Europeans were so horrified they dropped their rainbow flags, “Vlad is a Dictator” pens, and “We Heart Third-World Invasion” coffee mugs.

So to no one’s great surprise the Europeans can not grasp this bitter truth and remain wedded to The (Outside) Russian Threat. More than 34 years have gone by since the Soviet Union closed up shop but the European elites – and the U.S. elites – have refused to recognize that a new day had dawned in the world in 1990.

In 1940, the French needed to not be fixated on the nearly impregnable Maginot Line and instead be alert to threats from any direction. But they had the wrong focus, prepared for the last war, and failed to appreciate the capabilities of German armor. Turns out last year’s solution didn’t solve this year’s problem.

So the Liberal Party in Canada is content to follow in the footsteps of an arrogant twit. As a result of Trudeau’s failures and betrayals, Vancouver is awash in money from Chinese billionaires and fentanyl courtesy of the Chinese government. The Mexican cartels infest Vancouver as it’s easier to move “product” into the United States from the northern border. And, in all of Canada, 40% of the population is foreign born.

So steady as she goes under Davos man it seems. As Dr. Phil might ask, “How’s that going to work out for you? You vicious, agile, farseeing, virtuous, educated twits.”

Notes.
^<1>“Mark Carney is wrong about everything.” By Fraser Myers, Spiked, 3/11/25.

South Africa today.