Nicholas Kristof is a fairly progressive columnist for the NY Times. Today he has a new column in which he admits something that is simultaneously obvious and awkward: We need to control the border.
Let’s just get the obvious out of the way here. The only reason Biden is taking action on the border is because it’s an election year. If it weren’t an election year he’d still be doing nothing. And along with that, let’s also stipulate that if Joe Biden weren’t taking this action, Nicholas Kristof would not be saying it’s a good idea to control the border.
All of this is happening because of politics. And yet, as Kristof himself says, just because Biden’s actions are entirely political doesn’t mean they are wrong. The same is true for Kristof’s column.
It’s amazing what a progressive can suddenly realize about the problems with an unregulated border once the leader of his party has…
