The would-be hysteria drummed up by the ruling class over YCT’s illegal immigrant round-up publicity stunt is predictable and quite funny.
First, it is a sad state of affairs when law enforcement has become so politicized and selectively neglected that groups of Texans must hold law enforcement reenactments. Before government controlled most of it, drama used to express popular longing. This was, from YCT, a kind of popular drama. Like war re-enactment, law enforcement re-enactment is now necessary just to remember what it was like back when the ruling class allowed law enforcement to properly enforce the laws.
Secondly, the willingness of so many ruling class team players to jump on the pretended-shock bandwagon at this event is evidence that The Jackass Patrol - Battleground Texas - have now chosen immigration for their empty skirt to run on. This is after various failed versions of running on abortion have shown them to be out of their depth. They so badly want their radical pro-abortion candidate not to be a radical pro-abortion candidate in this election.
Responses of faux-outrage from some offices are evidence of a dangerous spine shortage. In Austin, sadly, the rule is when in doubt, be a coward.
Also, YCT basically said this was always a publicity stunt, designed to bring the issue to the fore.
It is precisely here where The Jackass Patrol would do well to pay close attention. See, unlike TJP, YCT knows Texas. YCT knows Texans don’t care that much what the media peanut gallery is trying to get us all to chant in unison. Texans don’t really do “unison” all that well.
But Texans do think the non-enforcement of our very reasonable immigration laws, driven not by normal Texans on any side of the aisle but by a combination of crony-fied big business and welfare hustlers, is a statewide embarrassment. It seems that, in order to take a principled stand, YCT was willing to give up their nameplates at the Austin Club, their UT football season tickets in Bill Powers’ Presidential Suite, and the love and admiration they so regularly receive from the media chorus.
Oh, wait a minute. YCT never had those things in the first place. Thaaaat’s right, they have the word “conservative” in their title and actually mean it, which means they consciously waived access to the social climbing class a long time ago. Smart bunch, that YCT.
So YCT is busy teaching The Jackass Patrol a lesson they can’t understand because they have a patented playbook created in Chicago that they think always works. YCT has Texas remembering the sad state of immigration affairs, and whatever they have to do or say as a result of this thing is just fine with them. Pretty good stuff.