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The American People insist on reforming immigration, and they don't just mean seeing that everyone who wants to come into the country is admitted as long as they enter in orderly lines at the ports of entry and have a background or health check, like at Ellis Island in the 1890s. Polls make clear, especially the one that counts the most last November, that it means they insist on exercising the right, inherent in every other sovereign state, to choose through their elected representatives, who can and who cannot enter, and to have those choices not just honored but enforced at every land, sea, and air port of entry. Democrats have ignored, deplored, and tried to evade that legitimate insistence for decades. As David Frum has repeatedly warned, if liberals won't enforce borders, fascists will. And now we're going to see.

I have no faith in Trump and his henchmen. I despise him and his methods. I think that he'll fail, and he'll just make a bad situation worse. I only hope that in four years there's another chance to prove that liberal democracy can respond effectively and humanely to the popular will.

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