Gladden Pappin

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“If you control your borders, then you can open them, you can close them, you can do whatever you want, but you get to decide.”

“The Trump administration engaged Harvard over its foreign student population. . . . And in The New York Times, there was an interview — I’ll have to paraphrase it — but there was a history professor at Harvard and she said: This is outrageous because Harvard University is a global research institution that happens to be located in the United States.”

“The feeling on the new right is that the liberal democratic side — I’m using little “l” and little “d” — became not a neutral playing field but a heavily freighted ideology.”

“When people feel that the political option doesn’t exist, then they become radical.”

“Many on the left accuse opponents of immigration of racism, whether or not that is the motivating factor. . . . I think you’ve unfortunately begun to see the phenomenon where some young people’s response is: Yeah, you’re right. You’ve just been telling me my entire life that I have a moral obligation to accept mass immigration, and if I don’t accept it, then I’m ipso facto a racist — so, yeah, whatever.”

“In Europe, . . . you have real countries with real historic multi-thousand-year identities. In some way, the injury to the national identity of France or Germany or England by suffering, in effect, uncontrolled mass migration and being told that it’s good, has led to a . . . deep social dysfunction. It’s like the loss of the city that you were in and your grandparents were in, which was French, is not so French anymore.”

“At some point, mass immigration became presented by those in favor of it as a moral obligation . . . . Many ordinary people in the United States and Europe feel that somehow, even though they live in a democracy, they weren’t really consulted on this. They were berated into it. It was presented to them as rational.”