TERRE HAUTE, Ind. (WTWO/WAWV) — Earlier this week, we caught up with Rich Lowry, the Editor-in-Chief of the National Review.
As we told you Thursday, Lowry was in Terre Haute to give a speech after his initial invitation to speak at Indiana State University was declined.
He spoke to a crowd about the current state of politics, mostly the recent presidential election.
He called the victory of Donald J. Trump an amazing feat.
“An incredible personal vindication for Donald Trump. He lost in 2020, conducted himself disgracefully after the election, was indited multiple times, left for dead and low and behold he has won the popular vote. Which most people didn’t think was possible for a Republican to do and hasn’t been done in a very long time. Now he has to deliver.”
Lowry says that Trump has a mandate, but that only goes so far.
“People weren’t voting for chaos in my mind, they weren’t voting for upsetting the apple cart fundamentally, so I think some of these cabinet choices are a mistake. But a lot of them I think are very impressive and go to what the core mandate here is, which is to get the economy roaring again, hold down crisis, and control the border.”
The border was perhaps one of the most important issues in the campaign.
“I think it is appalling what Biden did because he inherited a border that was under control, with reasonable measures that had done it, and just ripped them up for no good reason. He was warned there would likely be a debacle if he did it, sure enough, it was a debacle. I think you’ll see the Trump administration trying to reinstitute a lot of those measures they had at the end of the first term to control the border.”
During the campaign, Trump promised that he would institute a plan for mass deportation. Now, Americans wait to see exactly how that will be carried out.
“Then the question is what to do with all the illegal immigrants that have come over the last four years and I do think we will see more interior enforcement. I think mass deportation is actually difficult to carry out, but we will see many more deportations than we have seen to this point. You hope some people just decide, seeing now that the laws are going to be enforced that they will go home on their own.”
The free speech event in Terre Haute was put on by Senator Greg Goode.
He and Lowry said that open discussion is the best way to bring our country together.
