Migration & Welfare Two Sides of Same Coin?

Letter to Ephesians: Do WSJ & Trump disagree whether EU’s “greatest” threat is its Muslim invasion (Trump) or Marxist-style welfare system (WSJ)? What if BOTH are right and can say the same for the USA state of affairs?

The newspaper’s editorial started out as if it was going to just roast No. 47 for his recent criticism of the EU’s handling of its migrant crisis and NATO’s perpetual handwringing vis a vis the Russian Bear threat, which the “outraged” Euros apparently don’t appreciate. Maybe Trump’s saying his “weak and decaying” European allies face “civilizational erasure” was a tad strong. Yet before turning their attention to the EU’s bankrupting welfare policies, the editors also conceded Mr. Trump’s criticism (and that of VP Vance) “have a point” nonetheless …

So, what exactly IS the point? What if Trump (and Vance) are not “ignoring the biggest threat to Europe’s well-being,” as the editors charge? That is, “Europe’s generous social-welfare states and the cascading fiscal, economic and social ills they create?” What if the Trump Administration is keenly aware that both sides of the coin … migration crisis and bankrupting welfare … but are arguing you’ve got to address both simultaneously to succeed at either. Even more to the point, isn’t that double-edged policy sword that the Trump Administration is trying to employ with its own illegal migration and runaway welfare spending efforts in the states?

Davd Soul