Gingrich: Time for 'national conversation' about immigrants living in country illegally who 'obey the law'

[DJ Synikus Makisimus]

4. Someone spike his milk? No one wants to "solve" immigration.

Immigrants are the fall guys for any sort of malfeasance that politicians choose to whip up their base. Historically, they've been the "cause" of disease (or its spread), the "cause" of organized crime," the reason parts of towns and cities turn into slums, and are "chronically impoverished." All that as if it weren't society's elite keeping folks in that predicament, mostly as a source of cheap labor from which they can squeeze greater profits.

US voters have not historically been especially worldly or smart, and have always been easily led to hate people who are different from themselves in some way or another by "clever" politicians. I haven't noticed that changing recently. So immigrants are the perfect political patsies; immigrants of color even more so in racist AmeriKKKa. Republicans currently have more haters than the other guys, but if those other guys make any move toward a normal discussion about the subject, the right-wing media verse is all over them - so they don't. Democrats, especially moderates, seem to live in constant fear of Fox, OAN and the rest. So short story long, not bloody likely.

On the other hand, if Newt is looking to run for something as a Democrat somewhere, I'm sure the "moderates" at the DNC are all ears - just like they would be for Liz Cheney or Adam Kinzinger.