The "debate" over "anchor babies" and "birthright citizenship" illustrates just how inherently racist and elitist the Republican Party of Bush really is.

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JEB! Bush is getting upset.  He's getting Trumped right now at his own game.

His exasperation showed at an ad hoc outdoor press ambush in New Hampshire this week.  His bumbling, fumbling, peevish, thin-skinned autocratic and entitled "inner Bush" was on full display as the Crown Prince lashed out and barked about "anchor babies," challenged the press to come up with a better term (who would expect a telepromped, uncreative Bush legacy dolt to do that?), and he insisted he would be the choice of his party in the end. And he pointed out that his primary opponent, the postmodern political meme of the moment that is The Donald, was using wedge issues to attack him.

Talking 'bout them wedge issues, JEB!?
Ask your father.

Wedge issues used to attack the latest incarnation of the familial fraud created by Lee Atwater and Karl Rove?

Call that, simply, Cosmic Justice.

Yes, JEB! Bush probably will be the choice, in the end, of the apparatchiks who run his Pinochetista family-owned neoconservative party.  But Donald Trump is not, as the anti-Bush candidate, really anti-Bush at all.  He is merely holding up the painting of this Dorian Gray family that's been hidden away in the attic at Kennebunkport for over a quarter century, right next to the records about how much the Bushes have donated to Planned Parenthood over the last century.

Trump is doing what he is doing to satisfy his ego, for sure. He is doing it for profit, you can bet. He may even be pulling off the best stand up act of the century, so far, as a Manchurian Candidate for the Clintons, or the Democrats generally, but he is not saying anything that is, in any way, in conflict with the fundamental philosophical assumptions of the Party of Bush.

The entire debate over whether or not the children of "undocumented workers" should be citizens by birth, or not, overlays a critical reality about Republican Party policies regarding illegal immigration.  Every last GOP politician is in favor of either illegal immigration, or legalized peonage.

Those demagogues in the party who throw red meat to the gullible nativists, and who rail opportunistically about wanting to stop the children of "illegal immigrants" from being US citizens don't really want their "guest worker" parents to go away or stop coming.  If they did, if they really wanted to stop people from coming here who were willing to work at cheap, below domestic labor market wages, then the whole issue of "anchor babies" would be moot.  There would be no "anchor babies."  All they want for these children is the same thing they want for their parents. The average Trump voter ought to stop and thank about that for a couple of minutes.  Think hard.

As long as US businesses wants cheap, easily exploitable labor from abroad, the Republican Party will always be opposed to any meaningful immigration reform legislation that actually enforces immigration laws, and provides a citizenship tract for those immigrants who come here in good faith. They will proclaim loudly their "love" for a "compassionate" guest worker program that creates a legalized system for exploitation, but never will you hear any of them talk about citizenship for these people. Never. Not those Republican politicians with Spanish names, and not those named Bush.