Taube essentially ignores immigration, the elephant in the living room of contemporary North American conservatism. In both the U.S. and Canada, mass immigration from non-traditional sources is a government policy enacted in the 1960s. Immigration is a new political issue, coming to the fore after the end of the Cold War that shaped the previous generation's thinking. Yet its impact is fundamental. In effect, Washington and Ottawa are dissolving their old Peoples and electing new ones.
Neoconservatives show some signs of genuine division on the immigration issue.
On balance, though, the neoconservative influence on the immigration debate must be judged negative. The disaster of Pickett s Charge has been described as the price the South paid for Robert E. Lee. The disaster of post-1965 immigration may the price the American conservative movement has paid for the neoconservatives. I'm worried about Michael Taube s attitude to immigration, based on fragmentary evidence. But you have to know the appalling condition of Canadian debate to realize how far he has come.