…doesn’t turn out to be Republicans, or even President Donald Trump.
Recall the Vietnam War, and our collapse in it, including the abandonment of South Vietnam by the Democrats then controlling the Congress when North Vietnam began its final invasion and that Democratic Congress refused to allow the US to try to rescue the South.
Recall the vasty numbers of refugees trying to escape the North’s takeover and to come to the US.
The Democrats said, “No!”
…a chorus of big name Democrats…refused to accept any Vietnamese refugees when millions were trying to escape South Vietnam as it fell to the communists.
They even opposed orphans.
These Democrats included
California’s then and now Governor Jerry Brown
Delaware’s Democratic Senator and lately Vice President Joe Biden
former presidential “peace candidate” George McGovern
New York Democratic Congresswoman Elizabeth Holtzman
Brown even went so far as to try to prevent refugee-laden aircraft from landing at the Federal government’s Air Force Base, Travis. The Democrats’ excuse, epitomized by Brown?
We can’t be looking 5,000 miles away and at the same time neglecting people who live here.
And
They said they had too many Hispanics, too many people on welfare, they didn’t want these people.
And this:
McGovern said he thought 90% of the Vietnamese arrivals “would be better off going back to their own land,” according to the Library of Congress.
Three of those are still around, and two of them remain active in Progressive-Democratic Party politics.
Refugees, to this Party, to the individual men and women of this Party, are not human beings in desperate straits. Not at all. Refugees are merely tools for scoring political points for personal political gain.
Oh, and let’s not forget that Progressive-Democratic Party heroic icon, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, who locked up hundreds of thousands of Americans who were already here just because they happened to have Japanese, Italian, or German heritage.
