Dave Brat Proves Libertarian Populism Can Win
To be perfectly honest, outside of Mickey Kaus’s twitter feed, I had not been following the House Majority Leader Eric Cantor’s primary at all. Until yesterday of course.
But now that I’ve spent the past three hours watching David Brat talk to churches, Tea Party groups, and talk radio hosts on YouTube, I think it is safe to say this election was about far more than immigration.
Yes, Brat almost always brings up immigration on the trail, but the issue is always presented as part of a much longer Big Business and Big Government vs America narrative. Here he is at the Mechanicsville Tea Party:
What else does Chamber [of Commerce] want? They want amnesty. And what does that mean? That means illegal immigrants coming in are granted citizenship and its in the millions. … If we bring in illegal immigrants, and there is a skills mismatch right, and then we are going to have to pay benefits, education, welfare, … The Heritage Foundation has numbers on all this I could bore you to death… Who is going to pick up the tab for all those unexpected costs?
You are.
Is big business gonna pay for that? No.