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McCain's Legacy Debate
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| Hello, I'm Jared Taylor with American Renaissance. | |
| Senator John McCain died on Saturday, and the media are prostrate with grief. | |
| But they haven't missed a chance to attack President Trump for being insufficiently reverential. | |
| He didn't keep the flag over the White House at half-mast for long enough. | |
| Trump balks at half-staff flag tradition for McCain. | |
| Observers outraged, says The Wrap. | |
| With a quote in the subtitle, calling the president a pathetic, thin-skinned, self-centered, low-class, petty coward. | |
| White House flags return to full staff less than 48 hours after McCain's death, complained The Hill. | |
| Mediaite explained that Tom Brokaw tears into Trump for his response to McCain's passing. | |
| Ignoring his death is a disgrace. | |
| Well, of course, Trump didn't ignore his death, so you begin to understand why he calls the media the enemy of the people. | |
| And there was much crowing when the president cracked and brought the flag back down. | |
| These attacks on President Trump help explain why the media are in such a frenzy of adulation for John McCain. | |
| He was one of the first and fiercest and most persistent never-Trumper Republicans, and that alone would have made him their darling. | |
| And just as important, even in his deathbed message, he mouthed the lines that now determine whether you are a good American or a bad American. | |
| He said, We are citizens of the world's greatest republic, a nation of ideals, not blood and soil. | |
| And he went on to say this: | |
| "We weaken our greatness when we confuse our patriotism with tribal rivalries that have sown resentment and hatred and violence | |
| Well, I'm sorry, Mr. McCain, but our country is already full of tribal rivalries. | |
| It's only whites like you who talk about uniting under one flag. | |
| I suppose you've already forgotten. | |
| The desecration of your beloved flag in 2010, when your home state of Arizona passed an immigration control law known as SB 1070. | |
| The tribe is already here, Mr. McCain, and they want their numbers to grow through immigration. | |
| Don't forget your constituents who want to give Arizona back to Mexico, and the people who say, If you think I'm illegal because I'm a Mexican, learn the true history because I'm in my homeland. | |
| That sounds a little like blood and soil to me. | |
| And, of course, there is a tribe that sometimes considers itself more African than American. | |
| Mr. McCain went on with his message. | |
| We weaken our greatness when we hide behind walls rather than tear them down. | |
| This is, of course, a clear dig at Donald Trump and ultimately at the very idea of a nation with borders. | |
| Oddly, Mr. McCain sang a different tune when he was running for re-election to the Senate in 2010. | |
| Here is one of his campaign videos. | |
| Drug and human smuggling, home invasions, murder. | |
| We're outmanned. | |
| Of all the illegals in America, more than half come through Arizona. | |
| Have we got the right plan? | |
| Plan's perfect. | |
| You bring troops, state, county, and local law enforcement together. | |
| And complete the dang fins. | |
| It'll work this time. | |
| Senator, you're one of us. | |
| I'm John McCain, and I approve this message. | |
| But once he was back in office, he betrayed the voters and joined the so-called Gang of Eight. | |
| To pass a Senate bill to amnesty an estimated 11 million illegals. | |
| Here he is yucking it up with Senator Schumer after the amnesty bill passed, which luckily died in the House. | |
| He never gave up the fight for illegal immigrants. | |
| Practically on his deathbed, he was prompting headlines like McCain rips Trump's family separation policy as an affront to American decency. | |
| But back to his farewell message. | |
| We weaken our greatness when we doubt the power of our ideals rather than trust them to be the great force for change they've always been. | |
| Well, his ideas are certainly a great force for change. | |
| His ideals of a nation without walls or borders, his ideals about the meaninglessness of blood or soil are changing this country so profoundly his ancestors wouldn't even recognize it. | |
| When John McCain was first elected to Congress in 1982, Arizona was 75% white. | |
| The next year, in 1983, he opposed making Martin Luther King's birthday a federal holiday. | |
| He has, of course, spent the rest of his career apologizing for that. | |
| And because he is now on what our rulers like to call the right side of history, he has been forgiven. | |
| As far as I can tell, every one of the gushing obituaries from the New York Times on down has passed over this king business in respectful silence. | |
| As for Arizona, whites are now down to about 57% of the population, and mostly they're old. | |
| Hispanics are the green bars, and whites are blue. | |
| Over on the left, there are already more Hispanics than whites in ages 0 to 9. But old people are overwhelmingly white. | |
| Since 2012, there have been more whites dying in Arizona than whites being born. | |
| And whites could become a minority 15 years sooner than in the entire country, that is to say even before 2030. | |
| John McCain must have died happy. | |
| Americans aren't hiding behind a wall because we don't have one to hide behind. | |
| Instead, we are hiding from the truth about race and the consequences of turning a once-great majority white country into just another part of the third world. | |
| That may not have been the America John McCain thought he was defending when he flew a fighter in Vietnam, but that is the America he helped create. | |
| That makes him the sweetheart of the media, but he was no friend of the real American nation. | |