If nothing else, at least Ann Coulter is consistent.
She really, really, wants a hard crackdown on immigration to this country, and she’s willing to run afoul of President Trump and his faithful right-wing cohort to say so.
In her latest column, titled “GOP MIDTERM SLOGAN: ‘WE NEED GUEST WORKERS TO DO YOUR JOBS,’” the populist author takes aim at Trump’s recent support for guest worker programs.
“Now that he’s president and could actually implement all those great things he ran on, Trump sounds like Liddle Marco,” she writes, referring, of course, to Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., whose Trump-nickname you might have forgotten by this point.
She is correct about Trump’s remarks this weekend. He talked an awful lot about how great it would be to have more guest workers.
“We need people to be able to come into our country, do your jobs, help you on the farms,” he said. “Guest workers, we’re going to take care of that. Guest workers. Don’t we agree? We have to have them. We have to have them.”
Coulter is not amused. After all, Trump’s campaign rhetoric on immigration was the entire reason she supported a longtime Democratic donor with zero political experience or acumen over nearly a dozen eminently qualified conservatives. The woman bought the ticket; she should at least get the ride.
“Liberals love to sneer about the bovine idiocy of Trump supporters, who are allegedly incapable of processing basic information,” she writes, adding that the “dead silence that greeted Trump as he blathered about replacing Americans with guest workers proves that Trump voters are listening quite closely.”
“The president needs to understand, unless he drops his bizarre and totally uncharacteristic desire to bring in people to do your job, the voters might just bring in someone else to do his,” she adds.
Trump won, she explains, because he was the only candidate who was willing to talk about immigration, which isn’t an exactly true statement. I think she means he was the only one who was willing to talk about immigration the way she does.
“Trump won by making the election about all the things Republicans would never talk about. Principally, this was immigration,” she writes, adding later, “The cowardly GOP was too terrified of the media to ever run on any awesome issues. Only Trump did, and, for that reason, nothing could stop him.”
Alas, she continues, the golden boy appears to have lost his nerve. And all of this just before the all-important midterm elections.
“There’s still time to hold the Democrats to a blue eddy this fall. All it takes is Trump keeping his promises on immigration and not starting a war,” she writes. “Every journey begins with a small step, and this one begins with Trump firing everyone in the White House. They’re the ones who have encouraged him to ignore his promises for so long.”
“[I]f Trump doesn’t do something major on his central campaign promise — not repainting border fences and telling us it’s the wall — see you on Nov. 7,” she concluded.
Seriously, though. As far as Trump’s 2016 media boosters go, Coulter is one of the few who is willing to hold his feet to the fire on any issue whatsoever. Watch Fox News’ daytime lineup for a few hours and you’ll see what I mean.
