Karl Rove

When I was in the Bush 43 Admin, @RealTheoWold , Rove had a plan to recognize Native Hawaiians as an Indian tribe (the history of Hawaii is much different than the real tribes of the continental U.S. and as a legal matter they couldn’t qualify, cf. Rice v Cayetano).

Rove thought it would ensure that Hawaii would have two Republican Senators ad infinitum.

I thought that was the political equivalent of smoking crack in its delusional nature.

With some stalwarts in OLC, I was proud to successfully resist such a Rovian “Republican” policy from my perch at DOJ.

It was literal lunacy.

And as a general principle, proliferating new governmental entities should be presumptively resisted. We have enough balkanization of various kinds in America already.

Jeff Clark

The thing you have to understand about Karl Rove is that he and Dubyah both are honest-to-God open borders ideologues.

Their chief political goal was to bring as many blue collar Hispanic workers to America as possible. The Rove-led GOP told us it would make the GDP line go up,… https://t.co/kkODNcjKnj

— Theo Wold (@RealTheoWold) September 17, 2026

… provide every elites an exploitable household labor class, and that all of these foreign nationals would be future GOP voters.

And yet, Hispanics continue to be a reliable Democrat vote and Republicans didn't make significant gains with them until Donald Trump ran on the complete opposite platform.