Posted on 07/10/2017 11:00:58 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
With his penchant for tweeted insults and GIFs, Donald Trump will never be mistaken for a master of the sweet art of persuasion. Yet he is clearly winning the public argument on the issue of immigration.
He isn’t doing it through sustained, careful attention. No, it is the sheer fact of his November victory, and the data showing the importance of the issue of immigration to it, that has begun to shift the intellectual climate.
It had been assumed, even by many Republicans like John McCain, that opposition to amnesty and higher levels of legal immigration would doom the GOP to minority status forevermore. Trump blew up this conventional wisdom.
Now, intellectuals on the center-left are calling for Democrats to rethink the party’s orthodoxy on immigration, which has become more and more hostile to enforcement and to any skepticism about current high levels of immigration.
The swing here was enormous. A Trump defeat in November after running on an exaggerated version of immigration restriction would have sent Republicans scurrying back to the comfortable, corporate-friendly cliches about so-called comprehensive immigration reform. And if Hillary Clinton had won on a platform that doubled down on President Barack Obama’s executive amnesties, serious immigration enforcement would have lost its political legitimacy.
In light of the election, Josh Barro of Business Insider, William Galston of the Brookings Institution, Peter Beinart of The Atlantic, Fareed Zakaria of CNN and Stanley Greenberg of Democracy Corps, among others, have urged Democrats to recalibrate.
Many of these writers don’t merely note the perilous politics of the maximalist Democratic position on immigration or argue that policy should take account of the economic costs as well as the benefits of immigration. They also give credence to cultural concerns over mass immigration—concerns that much of the left considers poorly disguised hate.....
(Excerpt) Read more at lacrossetribune.com ...
Still, this is important, maybe more so coming from an establishment type, not to mention being published in the La Crosse Tribune, which we call The Daily Mistake.
If he’s right and being plugged in to GOPe circles, he may well be, then we could see a change from the establishment.
Go, Trump.
Edited for clarity.
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Hey Lowry! Trump is a master persuader.
http://blog.dilbert.com/post/139541975641/the-trump-master-persuader-index-and-reading-list
Anytime someone conflates illegal and legal immigration, I tune them out.
Privileged white people saw the loss of jobs due to automation and decreased their birth rate to accommodate the prospect of fewer human jobs in the future. That represents an intelligent life form.
Then there are the Democrats and insurrectionists.
Stopped reading there. Cognitive dissonance much?
Lowry has been wrong about everything since Trump came down the escalator.
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