I understand it too, and it's like putting lipstick on a pig to impress someone who will never respect them because they don't come from a good country, like Norway. But wealth and power always impresses the young powerseekers, who are willing to throw their own families under a bus in order to believe they might get a taste of that wealth and power, which of course they won't.
And you know just how t sees India?
Not to be an apologist for t, (dont nobody try to put that
on me!)
BUT
I think your "left" makes not the least effort to understand
what t is actually about, but pounces on, and takes out
of context, misrepresents etc as it suits, anything they
think they can exploit. See "maga hat kids" for
an example of media looking for
anything that can be
trumped up and tossed to the sycophants.
All that said-
Among immigrants there are those who make valuable
contributions, and those who are a drag on society.
The t is not noted for gentle ways of saying things,
but the point of the S-hole was not racism.
It was that educated people from countries /cultures
such as Iran, Japan, Norway, say, are far more
desirable in terms of building the USA than
are uneducated people from cultures with values
and behaviour that run deeply counter.
This is hardly a unique or original pov for any country
or its leadership to have.
I cannot see what is wrong with it.
AND BTW, it is well known (by some, at least)
that immigrants from India are among the
very best the USA can get. (so are Nigerians btw)
