I recall people demanding all vote for Bush no matter what. On and on... All were urged to save all that immigration stuff until AFTER he was elected. All that could wait ya know.
People were routinely called “single issue voters”. Those concerned with the security of our homeland and wide scale violence and wholesale lawlessness were labeled malcontents.
And here we go again....
I don't think it was ever meant to be easy - that we can "coast"...
“The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance,”
- John Philpot Curran, 1790