It’s crazy how libs are championing this. /r/politics is calling it masterful 4-d chess, because apparently republicans have to either let the deal through and give Brandon a “win” or block it and give Brandon a talking point on how he’s tough on immigration but the republicans aren’t.
Bro THEY DON’T CARE. If republican hypocrisy had any negative impact on voters there wouldn’t be any elected republicans left.
Love to have the most progressive president since FDR push draconian immigration policy in an attempt to play a game of gotcha with people who don’t care in front of voters who don’t care
draconian policies are very popular, evidently. but moreover, Biden is not trying to win staunch Republicans, he’s trying to cement his appeal among the sliver of constituents that put him over the top last cycle (normal, suburban whites). making the GOP take seditious positions on immigration is probably a fine strategic move; and, while the redditor-lib affect --one of earnest, sycophantic defense of Biden-- is really lame, i wouldn’t conclude that immoral positions are identical with strategic mistakes. if moral clarity and rectitude were sufficient to win, the Left should be, i’d like to think, undefeated.
surely becoming 99.5% hitler will win over the “we want 100% hitler” voting bloc
Can’t wait for Biden to appoint Trump as Chancellor in order to unite the country.
They could literally set up gun turrets on the Rio Grande and Abbott would still talk about how Biden is “weak on the border” and bang the secessionist drum because he refuses to approve a first strike against Mexico City. It doesn’t matter what compromise will always just ask for more. It costs them nothing and their voters don’t fucking care. Anyone who says otherwise is a dumb fuck who doesn’t understand the first thing about politics.
huh? if the GOP rejects the deal, Biden gets a feather in his cap, if the GOP rejects the deal, they look extreme and silly to the small sliver of marginal, contestable voters.
obviously there’s nothing Biden can do to win MAGA chuds; they’ll pick the real fascism every time. but he doesn’t need to – he only needs to cement the 3pct or whatever of normal suburban whites who used to be moderate Republicans (the same constituents that he took in 2020). and those people probably don’t like the “vibe” of American being overrun by foreigners, and also probably think that seceding from the Union is unserious and dangerous.
also, I’d think: the material interests just won’t produce a progressive, humane policy; the people that would most materially benefit are the prospective immigrants who are definitionally non-voters. the Atlantic readers with No Human is Illegal yard signs aren’t abandoning Biden for this; the Left, such that is, has already been brought to heel (and those who plan to withhold votes or support are already jumping ship over Biden’s genocide; in for a penny, in for a pound, the Dem advisors must think).
I mean look at the situation so far. Even before this, Biden has been tighter than Trump. Have the GOP acknowledged that? No! Biden is a democrat, democrats are loose on border security, QED Biden is loose on border security, even if the facts say otherwise. Republicans will repeat this to anyone who listens, and they will continue to do so indefinitely.
Normal democrat moment. Scold people for being racist and blaming immigrants for all of the problems caused by rich people. Refuse to point out that rich people are actually the problem. Participate in racially motivated attacks on immigrants.
Edit: Wonder why nobody seems to believe you when you say racism is bad.
This last step requires the dubious assumption that there’s a little bit of self criticism happening.
This still isn’t going to be enough cruelty for the reactionaries they’re trying to cater to. This would be some of the strictest, cruelest border policy in the world and yet it’s still not going to be enough. It’s going to eventually be extrajudicial killings performed by border patrol against any migrant they see, and I’m pretty sure it already is.
Remember when a bunch of militia chuds held bunch of migrants at gunpoint a few years back and border patrol happily cooperated with them and arrested the migrants?
Here we go, found it: CW Racism, Law enforcement. https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/salvadorhernandez/militia-group-border-migrants-detain-united-constitutional
Edit: I have a ominous feeling that stuff like this will become very common in the near future and we’ll see even more integration between cops and chud militias. Like the cops letting KKKyle Rittenhouse go home after shooting BLM protestors.
