The lesson of Eric Cantor: Republicans can't win on immigration

Damned if you do, damned if you don't

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Soon-to-be-former House Majority Leader Eric Cantor encapsulates perfectly the Republican dilemma on immigration.

Immediately after Cantor conceded his Republican primary in Virginia to a candidate to his right on immigration, liberal activists stormed the ballroom housing what was supposed to have been Cantor's victory celebration.

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W. James Antle III

W. James Antle III is the politics editor of the Washington Examiner, the former editor of The American Conservative, and author of Devouring Freedom: Can Big Government Ever Be Stopped?.