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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I mean that is the line in Texas (as it should be), but “the base” isn’t drawn on racial lines. It is drawn on cultural lines, perhaps, but not racial ones. Of course, I think cultural lines among white ppl are more or less identical to integrated vs segregated whites so.
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Also for all those takes every race I’ve followed pivoted to persuading Republicans after the primary. Gone is single-payer and gun control, welcome to “quality healthcare for all Americans” and “I respect the second amendment.”
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That's interesting. How long can Dem politicians resist the inexorable force of TAKES?
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As long as voter focus groups exist.
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I imagine Takes as a sort of cone of metal and guns rolling down the street screeching and firing rounds into the air, like in the ending of Tetsuo the Iron Man...
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