With articles like this, is it any surprise that the Republican Party is having trouble relating to a diversifying, increasingly immigrant America? When one of

With articles like this, is it any surprise that the Republican Party is having trouble relating to a diversifying, increasingly immigrant America? When one of its institutional mouthpieces is publishing articles that celebrate eras in which the majority of modern America would have been excluded from the levers of power, is it any surprise that the American public is choosing to reject the Republican party instead of rolling over and handing back rights that were hard won during the twentieth century? I mean, let's look back at the era in which WASPs ruled American political life. They heyday of the WASP was basically from the end of reconstruction through the beginning of the Great Depression. These were great years... if you were a WASP. If you weren't, they were years of rising income inequality, rising racism, rising anti-immigrant sentiment and rising corporate power. Sure, TR, and later, FDR, went some way in ameliorating the worst excesses of WASP power, but they were viewed as class traitors by their fellow WASPs. These were years where, like today, the rich got richer, and everybody else got screwed. As a proud member of Everybody Else, I'm glad that WASP power has been irrevocably broken. I do not want to go back to an era in which I am excluded from the most desirable positions in society simply because I am of the wrong race, religion or gender.