Trump wants us to follow the Brits into a corner of isolation — by race, religion and trade. His philosophy, the rant of a besotted boob making things up in public, is anti-American at its core. In rejecting our former colonial masters, we threw off monarchy, the class system and a state religion. We opened our doors to all nations, all religions, all opinions.
.. As a percentage of the population, there are fewer foreign-born residents in the United States now
than there were in 1870, 1890, 1900 and 1910 — not long after a plaque welcoming the “wretched refuse of your teeming shores” was latched to the base of the
Statue of Liberty.
.. And today, about
half the babies born in the United States are nonwhite. In places like Wichita, Kan., more than 80 languages are spoken by families in the school district.