Ponnuru’s Complaint: Paleocons Keep Outing Him By Marcus Epstein

Ramesh Ponnuru and Jonah Goldberg have now felt obliged to post six times at the NRO’s Corner blog about my recent article National Review's Ramesh Ponnuru Instructs Us On The Right Way To Love Illegal Immigrants, a critique of Ponnuru’s attempt to finesse the immigration issue in a recent issue of the magazine.

My criticism of Ponnuru’s article was limited to the flaws in his analysis of immigration’s role in GOP politics—basically, he follows the conventional wisdom and ignores the white vote—and how it reflects a general pattern in his writing—advocating a “compromise” that effectively moves the immigration debate to the left Beltway consensus, while posing as a restrictionist. I argued that Ponnuru’s performance is, on balance, consistently negative to the patriotic immigration reform movement.

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