I thought he had real potential to be someone exceptional and be the spearhead of a new populist and nationalist paradigm of American politics that would transcend the left-right banality.
But he’s letting the Beltway culture turn his mind into mush.
In the most recent issue of Parade magazine, Sen. Webb complains about overcrowded prisons, claims that they’re overcrowded because they throw people in prison for possessing weed (which is mostly untrue), cites the growth of Mexican gangs in the U.S., (Webb was for “comprehensive immigration reform” in 2007), and then says that problem can be solved by American ingenuity.
And yet, a sitting United States Senator couldn’t use some of that American ingenuity to come up with a solution other than saying we should use American ingenuity.
