Claremont's Michael Anton on what number of the 8+B globe's top two
quintiles Donald Trump will import into 350+M America and to what
culture they will assimilate: <URL:https://americanmind.org/salvo/is-custom-king/>
| Beyond this, there is another enormous problem that Gottfried never
| mentions: how are we supposed to unite the 330 (350? more? who
| knows?) million people living within the present borders of the
| United States around a tradition that at least 100 million of them
| did not grow up in and do not share? Even in the founding era,
| tradition alone was deemed insufficient for uniting the new country.
| Our disparities then--various Protestant sects, a few Catholics,
| even fewer Jews, negligible ethnic differences--pale in comparison
| to today's vaunted "diversity." I know Gottfried insists that the
| founders did not resort to any airy abstractions in order to unite
| English, Scot, Welsh, Irish, German, Catholic, mainline and
| dissenting Protestant, and Jew--I disagree, but that too is old
| ground by now. But even--especially--if Gottfried is right that
| tradition is not merely the sufficient but the greatest possible
| basis for public unity, how does he plan to amalgamate the, so to
| speak, infinite traditions that, since the 1965 immigration act, now
| reside in the United States?

Does Susie Wiles see signs in her or Bill Stepien or Brad Parscale's
polling that legacy American proles view diversity as a strength?
John
groenveld@acm.org
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