Frum gums up the immigration issue--again by Lawrence Auster

I really have no desire to attack David Frum, and I wish this hadn't happened, but it has. It started with David Frum writing a piece in the June 25 National Review, "How I Rethought Immigration," a title that makes it sound as though the immigration issue had never been re-thought until Frum came along, about his evolving views on immigration over the decades, from empty-headed open-borders advocate in the late 1980s when he was in law school to the sage critic he is today. According to Frum, this change had largely been accomplished as early as 1990 (!!!!) when he worked at the Wall Street Journal under the fanatical open-borders ideologue Robert Bartley, and Frum gamely tried to introduce some sanity into that Kremlin of open-borderism. Frum then proceeds to his familiar denunciations of the paleo right for supposedly poisoning the immigration issue in the 1990s and so preventing the true immigration reformers, namely Frum himself (!!!!), from making headway with it--surely one of the most self-serving motifs in the history of political journalism. (Frum's fake take on the evolution of the issue has also served as a template for the far worse Jonah Goldberg to write the same kind of article himself in February 2002, "Ideologues Have Hijacked an Important Debate.")

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