Karl Rove told the Hispanic advocacy group La Raza, that is, “the race,” that [e]verything that this country is, everything that we have achieved, everything that we hold, everything that we promise, is because we are a nation of diversity, brought together by immigration and sharing a common dream.”

This reflects a lamentable want of understanding of American history and principles and substitutes immigration and diversity and having a dream as the veritable raisons d’etre of America. We know from David Frum that Rove of course perfected the policy of appealing to group identity in obtaining votes, thereby enforcing multiculturalism–evidenced in, among many other things, the White House holding Hanukah and Ramadan celebrations–and affirming the idea that each group is entitled to official, public recognition as a group apart from the majority of the American people.