Even though I think the neoliberal/leftist ideas of open borders and unrestricted immigration are terrible and terribly naive ideas both for the US and the emigrants’ countries, after seeing what’s happening in Charlottesville with the white nationalist clowns my first impulse is to say “screw it” and throw open the borders to any and all.

Unrestricted immigration is frankly an idiotic idea, but the alt-right people are far, far worse and pitting the two against one another, I’d rather do whatever harms those cretins the most.

This is in most ways a false dichotomy I realize, and I know if you don’t support open borders and allowing hundreds of millions to collapse all social structures and social programs you are an evil racist, but the future is far worse with the return of the Ku Klux Klan and its modern offshoots than any possible open borders scenario of the neoliberals/left, no matter how harebrained.

By the way, though it’s not that Trump and his election had nothing to do with it, I believe it’s a factitious narrative that this would not have happened sans Trump. Do you think the election of Hillary Clinton would’ve made these people less angry, somehow placated them?

If so, please explain because that doesn’t make a damn lick of sense.