John J. Miller: An Optimistic Take On The Swing Toward A "Majority Minority" America

Narrative shcmarrative. But assimilation is good. One way you can tell it's good is that the progressive left is against it. Anyway: it's one of the secrets of our success. And one reason I favor controlling illegal immigration and possibly even throttling back a bit on legal immigration. IMO we don't want to take in new Americans at a pace too rapid to assimilate them. Once you make that mistake, it seems to be the kind of problem that would be hard to fix. The identity-politics left hates assimilation basically because it hates the United States* and its sine qua non is racial and ethnic disagreement and conflict. Most people who have allowed themselves to get drawn into progressivism without really understanding the view don't understand that the vanguard of the view has its heart set on a post-American, post-liberal, post-capitalist future. If not for technology, there's a good chance they'd add 'post-scientific' to that list... Anyway: three cheers for continued assimilation, which has, thus far, been good for both the assimilators and the assimilated.