Watched the Dean Martin and Frank Sinatra Family Christmas with my kids.
— Stephen Miller (@StephenM) December 26, 2025
Imagine watching that and thinking America needed infinity migrants from the third world.
There’s a quiet irony here. You’re watching two men whose families came here with foreign names, foreign accents, and an American dream, and using them to argue the dream should be padlocked now.
— Mike Young (@micyoung75) December 26, 2025
America isn’t weakened by people who want to belong. It’s weakened by leaders who…
There’s a quiet irony here. You’re watching two men whose families came here with foreign names, foreign accents, and an American dream, and using them to argue the dream should be padlocked now.And "third world” here is being used for an old euphemistic purpose: to declare certain groups “unclean.” It’s as American as cherry 🍒 pie 🥧.
America isn’t weakened by people who want to belong. It’s weakened by leaders who tell you belonging is a limited-time offer, and then call that “patriotism.”
Miller really is following a familiar playbook:Not true. Frank Sinatra's father was from Sicily; Dean Martin's father from Abruzzo. Southern and Central Italians were stereotyped as ethnically dark, violent, and unassimilable. Many lived in ethnic enclaves such as Little Italys, shaped by chain migration and racial exclusion. https://t.co/Sb4emBAxuv pic.twitter.com/lHQTJt25OZ
— derek guy (@dieworkwear) December 27, 2025
And the outcome is pretty well fore-ordained; except Trump won’t be the mastermind who establishes a permanent rule. He’s already failing, and he still has a GOP Congress. The same one that got him this far. But he’s not going any further.Sounds familiar… https://t.co/d2ojSZIVcr
— MeidasTouch (@MeidasTouch) December 27, 2025
Maybe the key to breaking them is to reimpose the tradition of WASPs getting to declare people who are now white as non-white, Jews, Italians (an especial focus of the neo-Klan), Irish, . . . Maybe we need to go back to the framers generation of Ben Franklin and John Jay who wanted to exclude Germans and Catholics in general. Make "white people" a far more exclusive category than it's become. When my Dominican ex-sister-in-law came here she grew up believing she was white, a product of the Dominican upper class. It took her a while to discover that she isn't white here. Her sons found out right away that they weren't. It's probably unworthy of me but Vivek, Patel, Haley, and Usha finding out they're not white anymore in Trumpdonia has been rather satisfying.
ReplyDeleteSteve Miller grooving like it's 1924 again makes me think we need to start excluding those the Republicans used to exclude, if only to make a point.