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Pam Birkenfeld's avatar

I’m afraid I can’t agree that the Democrats on immigration have been an abject failure! There was that bipartisan bill that Trump scuttled because he wanted immigration as an issue. That would’ve been good and it was bipartisan. Biden did deport many people, but tried tostrike some kind of a balance I think. The dreamers and all of that. So I’m not sure they got it 100% wrong all of the time. Of course the media megaphone never recognized all the positive things he did do about immigration.

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Essentially reposting my comment from Morning Shots today, as it is relevant here too and there's no need to reinvent the wheel -- apologies to those who have seen it already.

The Quinnipiac poll is nice eye candy but ultimately inconsequential. If we are waiting for public opinion to curb, restrain, or change the worst excesses of the new administration, it is a fool's errand. Those in the new regime do not care what others think, even within their own tribe. They believe, and to a large extent know, that if they keep on doing what they seek to accomplish, eventually their base not only will cave in to their agenda but also will adopt their talking points and become messengers as well as converts. They realize that they have a very compliant base. They are aware that the hard ground was softened up decades ago, by right wing talk radio and other outlets that created a permission structure, that owning the libs became the highest possible goal, and all done in service to it was not only righteous, but also necessary. As long as they mix into their harmful agenda a certain amount of anti-Biden and anti-American and anti-liberal rhetoric to justify themselves, they are good to go.

It hardly bears repeating, as you know this already, but for the record: the downturn of our shared society into a cesspool of unfiltered autocracy did not take place solely with the arrival of DJT. It has been decades in the making, fomented by bad actors acting in bad faith on the political right and with a big assist from our foreign enemies and their disinformation campaigns. They all counted on tens of millions of everyday Americans being too stupid and shallow and intellectually lazy for their own good. And they were right. Now they are being shown the payoff. Don't expect any letup on their part as they reap the rewards of betting that eating America from the bottom up would make for a great meal.

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