A country that cannot count its own illegal aliens - estimates range from 8-12 million - with a porous 2,000 mile border is not secure despite twelve carrier battle groups. We must accept that it is a cornerstone of Mexican foreign policy to export illegally each year a million of its own to the United States to avoid needed reform at home and to influence American domestic policy.

This is something that Donald Trump has been very effective at exploiting because throughout our history, one of the things that was important to galvanize the country against a perceived threat has been philology.

So why, after prior successes, did Obama's race/class/gender attack finally sputter out like the French at Waterloo?

I'm kind of old-fashioned because I was born and live in the same house for six generations.

It's radical Islamic terrorism. And yet, when you see the last eight years, something's gone wrong to call it violent extremism or man-caused disasters. It would be as if we were looking at [Adolf] Hitler in the 1930s. And we were afraid to say that he was a Nazi.

We have had raucous moments in our history. And I think we're in one now. But it's not going to endanger the future of democracy.

Popular culture is simply a reflection of what the majority seems to want.