For all his pretense to political respectability ,The Good Doctor (TGD) has a penchant for the political roughhouse, for a bit of old fashioned name calling and unproductive, but satisfying, hyperbole. Demagoguery 101 of May 12, 2011 is a case in point. One can almost see TGD’s argument that President Obama used his recent speech on immigration to his political advantage: to compare and contrast his own policies and that of a Republican Party enmeshed in xenophobia and just plain hate of ‘illegal immigrants’ from south of our border with Mexico. Is the Republican Parties stand on immigration solely based on that porous border with Mexico and a flood of poor brown people, ‘illegally’ seeking a better life in the ‘North’? There are many more serious and thoughtful questions to be asked in this context but TGD manages to marinate in a pathetic fit of political distemper. In contemporary American politics, race has been a factor in the Republican Party since Richard Nixon’s adoption of ‘The Southern Strategy’ in 1968, so denials of an active component of racism, in the contemporary parties makeup, is nothing if not self delusion and in fact must be viewed as a glaring instance of bad faith.
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