Laura Ingraham Finally Goes Full VDARE

Credit not expected. But she might at least denounce NYAG James' mugging

At least the disastrous November 4 2025 elections had one silver lining: the Respectable Right has finally Noticed, and even feels free to Mention, what I called in the subtitle to my 1995 (!) book Alien Nation “America’s Immigration Disaster.”

For example:

N.b. “both legal and illegal.”

VDARE’s long-suffering Editors immediately replied on their still-flourishing X/ Twitter page:

and supplied the smoking X/ tweet:

This was Ingraham’s hastily-deleted tweet:

She had linked to this article by VDARE.com writer James Kirkpatrick (now live-steaming on Rumble under his real name of Kevin DeAnna): “Jeb Bush Denounces Americans Who Don’t Want To Be ‘Changed’ By Mass Immigration.”

Ironically, back in 1995 Laura Ingraham had interviewed me very supportively about Alien Nation for her radio show. My sense then was that she really understood the arguments. In those days, that was quite rare—even with self-proclaimed “conservatives.”

I thought of telling her how much she reminded me of Ann Coulter.

But I decided against it.

Even more ironically, Ingraham has actually been good on immigration. There’s a whole archive of complimentary VDARE.com articles about her work.

And in the dark BT [Before Trump] years, I got an email from a young woman producer at the Laura Ingraham Show. She wanted to pick my brain about immigration, at that time a subject that the Ruling Class had pretty well bottled up but which she cleverly saw the need to cover even further on Ingraham’s show.

I was happy to talk to her. VDARE.com was (is), after all, a 501(c)(3) charity. We give stuff away.

On the phone, Ingraham’s producer frankly said: “Of course, I don’t think Laura will be able to quote you.”

I bore this with what Shakespeare called a patient shrug. (See “charity,” above). Needless to say, I bitterly resented the Treason Lobby’s ability to unperson its most incisive critics, especially because it occurs basically because the Respectable Right is so easily intimidated.

But at least Laura Ingraham was passing Immigration Patriot arguments on to Main Stream Media audience.

So I found Ingraham’s 2018 deletion of her tweet and Disavowal of VDARE.com irritating, especially because she also went the Full Lowry—a move named for National Review Editor Rich Lowry, who in 2012 fired Bob Weissberg for speaking at an American Renaissance conference and also fawningly thanked communist vigilantes for informing him.

And of course Ingraham should have known better — the more so because she herself had been attacked by a PC internet lynch mob over a trick of the camera when she spoke at 2016 GOP convention that nominated Donald Trump.

This tale from the ongoing Immigration Wars provokes a couple of reflections.

First, how extraordinary was the Reign of Terror which for nearly twenty years—I’m dating it from Bill Buckley’s 1997 purge of immigration patriots from National Review—was substantially able to keep the immigration issue out of respectable debate.

And yet the issue has broken through, to the point where Richard Hanania assures us immigration patriotism has completely captured the Republican Party.

Second, how extraordinary was (is) the situation within the Fox TV network. Although it’s regularly reviled as rightwing, this actually has very serious limits. Much of its staff is said to be indistinguishable from MSNBC staff, and in fact would rather work there.

Above all, Fox supported the Rove-Dubya-Obama drive for Amnesty. Yet Ingraham was able to emerge as perhaps the leading opponent of Amnesty. This was a remarkable political achievement, especially as the network’s abrupt firing of Tucker Carlson shows that mere profitable popularity is no guarantee of continued employment.

But I still think Ingraham could just have quietly deleted her tweet. (As she later did when attacked for retweeting our version of a Michelle Malkin syndicated column.

And I still think Laura Ingraham should say something about VDARE.com’s recent unconstitutional mugging by New York State Attorney-General Letitia James.

She can just retweet Jim Varney’s devastating account in the eminently respectable Real Clear Politics.

That should be safe enough. And she owes us.