About the Marches

75 years of liberals and activists of all sorts has led us to the point where people who aren't supposed to even be in this country are claiming rights on the basis that they're used to not having laws enforced. You can't have a sovereign state if it can't even define its own borders. And you can't have much of a democracy with non-citizens thinking that they have a right to vote, which, if it hasn't happened yet, will surely follow from the belief that people have a right to immigrate here illegally.

And, as John Podhoretz points out, the majority of citizens and legal residents get turned off by the chutzpah of these people who think they have us over a barrel. We are still enough of a Jacksonian democracy that this sort of challenge makes people angry, and politicians still listen to angry voters.

Swing voters gravitate toward the middle, avoiding whichever party seems the most extreme, either ideologically or emotionally. The media and the Dems are doing their best to paint Conservatives with the "extreme" label, but people aren't stupid, and they don't buy this "all immigrants are equal, legal or not" argument.