The road to right-wing vulgarity was paved with hypocrisy.

As much as immigration has led to suspicions, conflicts and misunderstandings, on balance it’s contributed to our country’s productivity and culture, and it’s made life better for families escaping harsh conditions in their homelands.

The “geriatric starlet,” immortalized in Albert Maysles’ 2014 documentary “Iris,” was far more than a nonconformist, a spectacle many passersby might dismiss as a kooky old lady. She used her increasingly frail frame as a canvas for her art.

The problem is that there’s an organized effort underway by transnational criminal organizations to buy up properties in rural Maine, gut them bare and fill them to the brim with marijuana plants to fund other illicit activities. 

It’s true that illegal immigrants overwhelmingly work once they get here; it’s why they come in the first place, after all. But the idea that a fraction of all immigrants, whose numbers have only drastically increased in the past couple of decades, “built the country” is a ridiculous fabrication and a profound insult to American workers, past and present.

Open borders. Deadly drugs. Activist Ivy League agitators with opaque funding. TikTok teenage propaganda.