This has gotten lost: Abigail Spanberger won big after vowing to RESCIND Glenn Youngkin's executive order directing local cooperation with ICE and voting AGAINST the anti-immigrant Laken Riley Act. Yet she gained bigly with working class.
New piece laying this out:
newrepublic.com/article/2030...
Ds automatically take the opposite position as Rs, often unthinkingly. And often, I think Rs know this and set Ds up with positions that confuse the fuck out of non-political people.
It’s only news to beltway people that so many want legal and controlled immigration (WTF with open borders - no group is ALL good) but also understand that immigrants bring so much good to the country and, as much as we can, we like to not be monsters and help people who need it.
I was just thinking Trump could do some weird reverse psychology on the resistance.
