Make no mistake: What’s happening on Capitol Hill this week, at Trump’s behest, is nothing other than an attempt by Republicans to slow the inexorable march toward that point at midcentury when the United States becomes a majority-minority nation.
In the long run, they are merely putting a finger in the dike. But in the short term, the Trump-backed immigration proposal, combined with other recent moves by the administration and its allies -- support for voter suppression, gerrymandering and various other schemes to disenfranchise minority voters -- could extend the white hegemony that brought Trump to power and sustains Republicans.