He’s an oddity, though, in that he’s also unusually pro-American for a Mexican politico. He took a lot of heat after 9/11 because of his stridently pro-American statements.

I think you’re right that he intends to use Mexican emmigration as a tool to reshape American politics to be more amenable to Mexican thinking. He probably believes that this will benefit us as well as him — just as I happen to think that a furthering of Georgia’s political interests over, say, Massachusetts’ would be good not just for Georgia, but for the world.

We’re in our rights to regard his (and Mexicos’ generally) efforts to interfere in our politics as invasion and corruption. Still, he’s not an enemy, precisely — I’m not sure exactly what he is. He’s at once the closest thing we have to a friend in Mexico, and yet also, well, a foreign power trying to assert control over American politics. That makes him dangerous, and not trustworthy. A dangerous, untrustworthy friend? I suppose I’ve had a few of those.

Gang way…the Californication of the rest of America is on it’s way!