When Republicans started to believe in racial bloc voting - when they stopped believing that nonwhite people could ever be persuaded to vote Republican - they started to see immigration as an invasion. This explains why immigration is now at the center of partisan conflict.https://twitter.com/SenatorBrakey/status/1056540826317283328 …
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Of course, the belief in ethnic bloc voting becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. When a slight Dem tilt among Hispanics and Asians caused the GOP to turn against them, Hispanics and Asians shifted more toward the Dems. Etc. etc. A self-reinforcing cycle.
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This is the precisely the scenario Jack Kemp and the old school HW Bush Republicans were afraid of.
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Their loss is our loss.
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