Whether or not “It’s the economy, stupid,” it plainly isn’t “It’s the National Question, stupid.” (Sorry, no time to figure out the grammar there.)

I mean, the National Question — issues of immigration, citizenship, assimilation, multiculturalism, and so on — will not be in play if we end up with John McCain as our candidate. Even assuming we can believe what he says about sealing the border (I’m trying my best here to avoid McCain Derangement Syndrome), he will only do it as a regrettable price to be paid for full amnesty. I have never heard him say anything about birthright citizenship, visa enforcement, H-1Bs, or any of the other topics in this zone, though I think if we could read McCain’s mind on these topics, we would find no surprises in there.

Thus, on one of the most vital issues the U.S.A. faces — the issue of what the population of our children’s and grandchildren’s America will be, and how it will be constituted, and how much encouragement the various groups will get from the feds to think of themselves as players in a Malaysian-style racial carve-up system — nothing will be said in the campaign, and nothing — or, more likely, worse than nothing — will be done in the next administration.

Our grandchildren will curse us.