I am getting worked up as the topic raised here is regressive. Indeed, BVE quoted President Calvin Coolidge, who was the 30th President of the United States (1923-29). Coolidge was regarded as an extremely conservative Republican. We know that such views are now out of context, and at the margin obsolete. Benefits for immigration in a more open and global context was too early to be perceived before the great depression, and such conservative and protective views were washed out partly by the economic contraction that followed.
Here is a quote from the White House itself:
Before his (Calvin Coolidge) death in January 1933, he confided to an old friend, ". . . I feel I no longer fit in with these times."
http://www.whitehouse.gov/history/presidents/cc30.html
I do not think there would be much support for the views portrayed by Coolidge (or BVE) in current times, from the blue-blodded American elite (Republican or Democrat). Sure we have a retrogression and we are upset and frustrated, but the tenets of competitiveness and capitalism have not changed.
I do not think my views would change after 10-15years. It is a matter of principle. It may be true that after 15yrs I would not be able to compete with new blood and face career challenges. However, I would know that accepting reality would be a better strategy than defending protectionism as what will be will be.....