ajax18 wrote:
Really? Even GWB said he believed we should enforce our borders.
Every single Democrat politician believes we should "enforce our borders." The idea that people don't favor your highly restrictive and cruel approaches to immigration policy don't believe in "enforcing our borders" is a strawman. Almost no one thinks there should be zero border enforcement.
Republicans (and conservatives) used to favor a much looser approach to immigration policy because 1) they were more inclined to the moral arguments that underlie more open immigration policy and 2) business interests Republicans are aligned with tend to favor more open immigration policy because it promotes a flow of labor.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vBWUOOzuWIYBecause of his position on trade and American manufacturing. That's how he broke the blue wall in the rust belt.
There was no blue wall. How do you think George W. Bush won the electoral college while losing the popular vote?
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/th ... blue-wall/The idea of the "blue wall" built into the electoral map is an artifact of how the national vote has happened to have gone in recent years rather than a consequence of underlying demography. When people believed in the blue wall myth, they were looking at the last 6 presidential elections before the most recent one. That's looking at a time-frame where Democrats have easily won four popular votes, lost one narrowly, and essentially tied the sixth. Lo and behold, the average of those is a blue looking map. In other words, "the blue wall" is just what happens when Democrats win the national vote by the margins they have rather than because they start out with a built in edge in a 50/50 election. Last time we had a 50/50 election, the Republican won the map.
The conservative Democrats shifting into the Republican party I'm referring to is the Southern realignment after anti-civil rights Democrats gradually shifted into the Republican party starting as early as the 1950's and going all the way through to recent years. They brought with them racial animus and xenophobia that has made modern conservatism much more anti-immigration than it used to be.
Trump is from a conservative tradition in America from Know-Nothings to George Wallace to Pat Buchanan, but he represents them taking power over a very different set of conservatives.
Really? I'd be among the people who voted to continue social security, welfare, and the rise of disability?
Yes. You voted for exploding our debt despite ample warning that was what your vote represented and you claiming to care about fiscal responsibility a lot. That's because the issues that really motivate you aren't that. You are an example of the great realignment. In fact, Donald Trump campaigned specifically on protecting entitlements, which of course could've been a Trumpian lie but nonetheless is what he says he supports, because he comes from the exact tradition you are mocking with this line.
like what?
Rule of law, fiscal responsibility, NATO, Russia, gun control, corporate favoritism, immigration...
Part of the problem here is that because he's an oily conman and currently is in political alliance with plutocrats in exchange for protecting him from legal consequences for his corruption, you can find him behind any number of positions and what he thinks isn't necessarily what his administration is doing. So you have to be careful to draw distinctions. But that's a nice start.