European elites destroy democracy in order to save it

Frida Ghitis: European elites restrict the choice of voters in European nations, even while deeming themselves guardians of “democracy” She says European elites seem to have convinced themselves that they must destroy democracy in order to save it.

She says barring immigrants from coming into a country is not another Holocaust ; it is not morally equivalent to slaughtering fellow citizens who are Jews , Roma , homosexual, or mentally impaired.

Ghitis says it would be easy to change European elites “to simply change their policy on immigration, not even dramatically”.

Not all of the Trump administration’s immigration actions are, in my view, defensible.

The U.S. has never had a fully open-borders immigration policy.

Americans have also had a habit of assimilation and encouraging nonadversarial attitudes toward American institutions.