September 19, 2026 - The Week in Review
Posts from the week of September 12 - 19, 2026. Immigration, electoral fuckery, and DHH as this week's "This Fucking Guy"
A podcast from last week, The Illegal News from The Bulwark spurred a flurry of posts. On that podcast, usually a dialog between Sarah Longwell from The Bulwark and a legal luminary (recently, Andrew Weissman is the consistent guest) this week it was a flipped script and Weissman was interrogating Sarah on her new book: How to Eat an Elephant.
There were several things that popped out of that, and I had to pen a couple of posts on that. What got my goat was that Sarah isn't saying that the old Repubican party can rise again (like the Confederacy will rise again that you hear) but that there is a coalition to re-assemble a moderate center-right ruling coalition. And I had to rip into that with my first post of the week:
Sunday, September 13: Sarah Longwell wants the future ruling coalition to be a fiscal conservative, low regulation, low tax, free trading country that just can't exist anymore.
Geoff Anderson
Monday, September 14: I return to reprise a post from last summer on the true state of immigration. Then I posted about how people who kept saying that immigrants should follow the process, and do it the right way, but they really didn't understand how problematic that was.
This reprise highlights how the Trump Administration and the his DHS has twisted the dial to 11, and really are being egregious:
Geoff Anderson
Tuesday, September 15: A follow on post from Sunday's "Station Keeping", whenever you hear the Never Trump crowd talk about how to fix America. They talk about "reforms" and "evolution" of the Constitution, or how to make these fixes work. David French even thinks that a new Constitutional Convention might be needed (I about fell over when I heard him say that).
In this post, I unearthed my dusty high school civics education, brushed up on the Federalist papers, and looked to other systems to see if there really is a way to restructure our electoral politics. Hint: not bloody likely:
Geoff Anderson
Wednesday, September 16: Another post inspired by "The Illegal News" podcast last week. During that podcast, Sarah grumbled that she was really tired of people blaming her for her Republican past, and how that contributed to Trump's ascent to the Presidency. She claims she was "recruited" in college into the conservative ecosystem, and that she was too young to be a part of the trajectory that brought Trump to prominence. I call bullshit, and this is the post. Alas, whenever I rag on Sarah in particular, I lose subscribers, and 5 people did hit the "unsubscribe" button. Oh well.
Geoff Anderson
Thursday, September 17: A recent post got me focused on the founders, the founding, and trends in immigration from the past. Turns out that every era of this American experiment has had some really fucked up trends in immigration, and the founders were really anti-Catholic. I mean weirdly so. As the franchise evolved from white property-holding men, to more males, and as the property requirements fall, the racial barrier are erected (and the southern/eastern Europeans and Irish were waves of immigrants that helped define these racial restrictions. Anyhow, I hope you read this:
Geoff Anderson
Friday, September 18: Well, it is Friday, and that means "This Fucking Guy". This week's episode is the execrable DHH or David Heinemeier Hansson. He is a tech bro that is a real piece of garbage.
Geoff Anderson
