Amitabh Pal, Managing Editor of The Progressive, has just explained to National Review’s Jay Nordlinger why Indian immigrants, despite repeated neocon predictions and regardless of their prosperity, won’t become Republicans: (1) they don’t like Bush’s foreign policy; (2) “the Republicans, in spite of protestations to the contrary, have been a party often representing white Christian interests…”

Of course, the GOP does represent white Christian interests because its base is white and Christian. (And so, as a matter of fact, is the historic American nation).

Immigrants from very different racial and cultural backgrounds naturally have more trouble assimilating to this base.

That is why encouraging such immigration is suicide for the GOP—and for the American nation.