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Michael Jones's avatar

I live in Arizona and the immigration issues were only a crisis in people’s minds in states that did not have borders with Mexico. What people have wanted on a national basis aligns with seriously reforming our immigration system. This is not what the MAGAs want. They have found electoral solidarity in the southern states whose theocratic culture does not sit well with diversity of our nation. It is not just trans, or immigration, it is white nationalism, and I would rather see it burn than relent.

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Hanfei Wang's avatar

Oh really? Then why did Gallego run so many ads about how tough he'd be on the border? And MAGA wouldn't be a national problem if it were just the southern states. This "white nationalist" movement also sure has a whole lot of non-whites supporting it as well (in fact, his margin of victory this time was provided by working-class non-whites, mostly Latinos), so I think there's more to it than that.

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Michael Jones's avatar

Because in the absence of meaning legislation border politics are the McGuffin of contemporary issues. Conservatives always demonize progress, meaningful or otherwise. There really isn’t more to the issue than that. They are not eating out dogs, eating our cats, eating our pets.

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