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Bill Barr, two-time attorney general and one of approximately 2.5 members of the Trump administration to leave with his reputation intact, has also written one of only two books about that administration worth reading, One Damn Thing After Another. Ive read em all. At least partially. Most did not merit more than a quick skim.

[For those interested, the other book about the Trump administration worth reading is Michael Wolfes Fire and Fury, but judging by its sales, you probably already have this book.]

Ive been a fan of Barrs since long before he worked for Trump, and was thrilled when he became Trumps A.G. But when I got to Barrs description of Trumps appeal -- which went on for pages and pages! -- I wanted to throw the book out the window.

You can probably guess where Im headed.

By Barrs lights, none of Trumps positives involved ... immigration.

They will not learn. No matter what we do, no matter how many times Americans tell pollsters they want less immigration, no matter how loudly we beg Washington to halt the endless flow of the third world into our country, the ruling class refuses to listen.

If electing a cretinous flimflam artist to the presidency solely on the strength of his promise to be a hard-ass on immigration didnt wake them up, nothing ever will.

The first clue about the absolute thickheadedness of anyone living within 100 miles of our nations capital was this deeply concerning line from Barrs book:

I had long planned on supporting Jeb Bush for the Republican presidential nomination in 2016.

Next, Barr turns to the political landscape that allowed such a preposterous creature as Trump to sail to victory. The source of the problem, as I saw it, he writes, was the growing strength in the Democratic Party of a Far Left progressive ideology that aimed to tear down and remake American society. Trump, Barr writes, was merely the result of our embittered politics, a bitterness engendered not by Trump but by the increasing militance of the Democratic Partys progressive wing.

Yeah, OK, fine. He gets two points for accurately describing how loathsome Democrats have become. How about the elected Republicans we send to Washington to represent us? Its you guys we really hate. If it were only progressive Democrats voters detested, why NOT Jeb-exclamation point? Why not John My Father Was a Postman Kasich?

No one imagines that Democrats give a crap about the country. Its Republicans who run for office, pretending to agree with the voters on immigration -- then get into office and sell out to the Chamber of Commerce.

Oh, you wanted a wall? Yes, absolutely, but first we have to pass these tax cuts, lavish billions of dollars on some foreign country and push through another Wall Street bailout.

For 50 years, in poll after poll, a majority of Americans have said they want LESS immigration.

Even the Cheap Labor Lobby at the Cato Institute produced a poll last year showing that 81% of Americans want less immigration than we have today. Sixty-one percent of respondents want to cut immigration by at least half. Nearly 10% of Americans want zero immigration.

Unfortunately, everything Trump was ever going to accomplish was accomplished at 2:50 a.m. on election night 2016, when he announced his victory over Hillary Clinton. (Everything other than turning judicial selection over to the Federalist Society.) At that moment, the densest Republican had to realize that restricting immigration is so popular that even a lout like Trump could win the presidency on it.

After 2016, how could any sentient mammal begin a sentence, as Barr does, But the main reason Trump won the nomination -- and later the general election -- was ..., and not end it with: IMMIGRATION!? (Ill accept a range of substitutes -- the wall, illegals, Dreamers, Press 1 for English, wages lost to cheap labor immigrants, Kate Steinle, the 9/11 attack -- did the media forget to tell you that was done by immigrants? -- the drug epidemic, etc., etc.)

Not Barr. He reels off the standard RNC suicide pact, prattling about the economy, military power, pro-life and school choice.

Yes, Trump won in 2016 because of school choice.

You could Ctrl + F: immigration through Barrs entire book and get nary a hit, other than general references to the Immigration and Naturalization Service -- and this:

Before one of the 2016 presidential debates, Barr is careful to note that he contacted a friend on the candidates team to suggest that Trump say, we welcome legal immigrants, and ... Latin Americans who come here legally -- people with a strong work ethic and family values -- contribute enormously to the country.

And thats how Jeb-exclamation point won the nomination and the general election!

Just this week, Republican Sen. John Cornyn was spotted on the Senate floor, seeming to propose amnesty, collegially telling a Democrat, First guns, now its immigration.

In Cornyns defense, he is massively stupid.

But Barr? Hes a smart man. And yet he picked up nothing from the Shock-the-World 2016 election of Donald Trump -- except tax cuts and a strong military?

Referring to the monumental arrogance of the Bourbon kings, blithely assuming they could revert to the very behavior that had led to the explosion of the French Revolution in the first place, Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand is supposed to have said, They have learned nothing, and forgotten nothing.

The French nobilitys got nothing on the Republican Party.

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