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In last weeks column, we noted the popularity of Hamas terrorists with BLM representatives.

This week, well consider the other main contingent of Hamas Boosters: foreigners, who, for reasons I cant understand, are in my country.

In the past few weeks, Muslims and Arabs have poured into the streets in nearly every U.S. city to celebrate the slaughter of Israelis, while wearing scarves, keffiyehs and other clown outfits and waving the flags of Palestine, Egypt, Algeria, Iraq, Lebanon, Morocco, Yemen, Turkey, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Nigeria, and on and on.

Its so obvious that these people from lesser cultures dont belong here that the immediate reaction of a number of politicians was to demand that their visas be revoked. Nobody looked at anti-war protests in the 60s and said, Revoke their visas!

Question: Why are we importing millions of people who will inevitably despise and resent the West for its very success?

This isnt the old, They hate us for our freedoms! Rather, it is simply an acknowledgment of the fact that the most common and destructive human emotion is jealousy. People will brag about being gluttons, prideful, greedy, angry, lustful and lazy. The only venal sin no one will cop to is envy. Thats how insidious it is.

Consider the open letter from 33 Harvard student groups blaming Israelis for their own slaughter. In addition to about a dozen Muslim and Arab groups, the letter was signed by clubs for immigrants from various locales notable for their high levels of corruption and leprosy (e.g., Bangladesh, Nepal, Bengal and South Asia).

You think Harvard had a problem with the Bengali Association of Students before the 1965 Immigration Act?

Freshly installed and deeply unimpressive Harvard president Claudine Gay (daughter of Haitian immigrants) issued a kumbaya statement in response to the bloodthirsty student letter, expressing sadness about both the 1,500 slaughtered Israelis and the war in Israel and Gaza now underway.

At this, billionaire donors to the university finally began to notice the insanity theyve been funding. A couple of Israeli billionaires, Idan and Batia Ofer, quit Harvards Kennedy School of Government board in protest. Another Jewish billionaire, Bill Ackman, demanded the names of the students behind the letter. Gentile and Republican! Ken Griffin (cumulative gifts to Harvard: more than $500 million) also raised a ruckus.

The same thing happened at other institutions of higher learning.

Sorry to roll my eyes, but where have they been? The gleeful cheering for the mass murder of Israelis is only the latest expression of hate by inferior cultures toward the superior culture of the West of which the donors are a shining example.

Here are a few other signposts of our descent into Calcutta.

In the last few years, statues of one great man after another have been toppled, among them: Christopher Columbus, Ulysses S. Grant, Thomas Jefferson, Robert E. Lee, Teddy Roosevelt and Francis Scott Key. White, White, White, White, White and White.

Portraits of scientists at Rockefeller University whod won the Nobel Prize or Lasker Award had to be removed on the grounds that they were all White men. The portraits made medical student Max Jordan Nguemeni Tiako sad, so they had to go.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art disemboweled Beethovens opera, Fidelio, to turn it into a story about BLM triumphing over a White supremacist conspiracy to oppress immigrants and people of color (with a discussion sponsored by Columbia University on dismantling systems of incarceration).

Responding to student demand, the University of Pennsylvania removed a portrait of William Shakespeare and replaced it with a picture of a Black feminist writer.

And how did Gay become the president of Harvard in the first place? Obviously, it was a rigorous competition just as it was for Vice President Kamala Harris, Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson and Sen. Laphonza Butler.

Gays historic appointment gave Harvard its first Black president! Who couldve seen that coming?

The shocked Harvard alums might not even be admitted today, with their cisgender White privilege. The colleges admissions office describes its job as antiracism work.

But when the exact same people who hate our country turned out to hate Israel, too, our clueless elites were gobsmacked. Gee, whered that come from? We thought you liked us.

Of course, barbarians hate Israel! Surrounded by enemies, Jews transformed an unforgiving desert into a first-rate civilization. Did anyone imagine the Holocaust would temper the bitter jealousy? Thats like heterosexual White coeds claiming to be binary to earn woke street cred. Youre still pretty, and they still hate you.

The conflict is far larger than a few hundred disaffected immigrants, colonized and indigenous people cheering mass murder by invading paragliders.

This is an endemic problem. Israel cant do much about the neighborhood, but why on Earth is the U.S. importing preposterous foreigners from third-rate cultures? The failure of their ancestors to create anything worthwhile, certainly compared to the stupendous accomplishments of the West, is too glaringly obvious. Inviting millions upon millions of them here, to gawk at our magnificent civilization, is a guarantee of perpetual strife and resentment.

It could never work. It was always an insane idea.

Instead of trampling on the free speech rights of people who hate the West, how about avoiding the problem altogether by leaving them where they are? Theyll like it! Vastly fewer White supremacists to oppress them. They can hate us all they want. Just do it from their own countries.

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Follow our live updates for the House speaker nominee vote.

Kevin McCarthy, the ousted speaker, was making his way through the Capitol when reporters asked what he thought of the chaos consuming House Republicans, who for nearly three weeks have been trying and failing to replace him.

His answer veered into the existential. We are, he said on Friday, in a very bad place right now.

That might be an understatement.

In the House, Republicans are casting about for a new leader, mired in an internecine battle marked by screaming, cursing and a fresh flood of candidates. In the Senate, their party is led by Senator Mitch McConnell, who spent weeks arguing that he remained physically and mentally fit enough for the position after freezing midsentence in two public appearances. And on the 2024 campaign trail, the dominant front-runner, Donald J. Trump, faces 91 felony charges across four cases, creating a drumbeat of legal news that often overwhelms any of his partys political messages.

As national Democrats largely stand behind President Biden and his agenda more united than in years Republicans are divided, directionless and effectively leaderless.

For years, Mr. Trump has domineered Republican politics, with a reach that could end careers, create new political stars and upend the partys long-held ideology on issues like trade, China and federal spending. He remains the partys nominal leader, capturing a majority of G.O.P. voters in national polling and holding a double-digit lead in early voting states.

And yet his commanding position has turned Republicans into a party of one, demanding absolute loyalty to Mr. Trump and his personal feuds and pet causes, such as his false claims that the 2020 election was stolen. The result is an endless loop of chaos that even some Republicans say once again threatens to define the partys brand heading into an election in which Republicans after struggling to meet the basic responsibilities of governing the House of Representatives will ask voters to also put them in charge of the Senate and the White House.

This looks like a group of 11th graders trying to pick the junior class president, and it will hurt our party long term, said former Gov. Chris Christie of New Jersey, who is challenging Mr. Trump for the party nomination. Its going to be very hard to make the case that the American people should turn over control of the government to Republicans when you cant even elect a speaker.

In recent months, the former president has focused more on his own legal peril than on his party. Flouting pressure from the Republican National Committee, Mr. Trump has largely opted out of some of the partys biggest moments. He skipped the first two Republican primary debates for his own events and plans to skip the third, forgoing a chance to present his partys message to an audience of millions.

And he has largely taken a hands-off approach to the fight over the House speakership. Nine months ago, he helped install Mr. McCarthy as speaker. But he did not come to Mr. McCarthys rescue this fall when Representative Matt Gaetz led the charge to oust him. He then endorsed Representative Jim Jordan, who has failed to win enough support.

Political parties out of power typically lack a strong leader. In 2016, Mr. Trumps election plunged Democrats into years of ideological battles between a restive liberal wing and a more moderate establishment. But whats less typical and perhaps more politically damaging, some Republicans said is the drawn-out, televised turmoil putting the internal dysfunction on public display.

Its kind of a captainless pirate ship right now a Black Pearl with no Jack Sparrow, said Ralph Reed, a prominent social conservative leader, who argued that the issues would eventually be resolved. But on the bright side, we will have a speaker at some point.

These Republicans are complete idiots, Ann Coulter, the conservative commentator, said on a radio program last week.

Mr. McConnell all but threw up his hands in interviews on the Sunday talk shows. Its a problem, he said on Face the Nation on CBS. Were going to do our job and hope the House can get functional here sometime soon.

And The Wall Street Journal editorial board, long a bastion of establishment Republican thought, wrote more than a week into the drama: As the current mess in choosing another House Speaker shows, never underestimate the ability of Republicans to commit electoral suicide.

Most frustrating to some Republicans is the fact that the messy battle is largely symbolic. Democrats control the Senate and the White House, meaning that whoever becomes speaker has little chance of making their agenda into law.

Still, there could be real-world political implications. As Republicans battled one another, Mr. Biden focused on an actual war. He spent much of last week building support for Israel, with a wartime visit and an Oval Office prime-time appeal for $105 billion in aid to help Israel and Ukraine funds that face an uncertain future in a House frozen by infighting.

Its a split screen Democrats are more than happy to highlight.

The president of the United States, a Democrat, gave the strongest pro-Israel speech, at least since Harry Truman, maybe in American history, said Representative Jake Auchincloss, a moderate Democrat from Massachusetts. The division is on the Republican side of the aisle, where they are so fractured they cant even elect a leader of their conference.

Mike DuHaime, a veteran Republican strategist who is advising Mr. Christie, said the inability to pick a speaker was a new low for Republican governance. If you dont have the presidency there is no clear leader of the party, he said. Thats natural. Whats unnatural here is that we cant run our own caucus.

But others say that Mr. Trump, along with social media and conservative media, has turned the very incentive structure of the party upside down. With a broad swath of the conservative base firmly behind the former president, there may be little political cost in causing chaos. The eight Republicans who voted to oust Mr. McCarthy, for example, are likely to face no backlash for plunging the party into disarray. As their message is amplified across conservative media, theyre more likely to see their political stars rise, with a boost in fund-raising and attention.

Whats happening is you have people who dont want to be led, but also want to engineer a situation where they can be betrayed and use that to rail against leadership, said Liam Donovan, a Republican strategist and former National Republican Senatorial Committee aide.

Some Republicans doubt the incident will have a lasting impact. In the summer, the party will pick a nominee at its national convention, and that person will become Republicans new standard-bearer.

Nicole McCleskey, a Republican pollster, said the messy dust-up in the House would be forgotten by next Novembers elections, washed away as just another moment of broken government amid near-record lows for voters trust in Congress.

People are used to Washington dysfunction, and this is just another episode, she said. Its Republicans and Democrats, and theyre all dysfunctional. For voters, its just further evidence that Washington cant address their problems.

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Republicans Grapple With Being Speakerless, but Effectively ... - The New York Times