Patriotic assimilation is the cure for America’s identity crisis

Patriotic assimilation is the cure for America’s identity crisis

Andrew Beck has articulated a thick version of the assimilation of immigrants (rightly so, in my view), which harks back to the spirit of Americanization prevalent from America’s founding to roughly the 1960s. Louis Brandeis, a liberal and political ally of the detestable Woodrow Wilson, expressed this common idea of assimilation in his July 5, 1915, “Americanization Day Speech”:What is Americanization? It manifests itself, in a superficial way,…