When you see the enormous political advantages of maintaining Trump's nativist immigration policies, but want none of the blamehttps://twitter.com/ZekeJMiller/status/1439743618944839686 …
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A good stand to make here would be on DACA. Block everything, let the country default and the aircraft carriers rust until people in the US from earliest childhood are granted the pathway to citizenship you have so often promised them. Show some of the grit that refugees show.
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Republicans are going to destroy the Democratic party on immigration no matter what policy they pursue. So we might as well wield power when we have it to do what's right, rather than trying to out-Trump Trump on an unwinnable issue. We elected these people to govern, not cower.
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While from an aesthetic standpoint I enjoy any Democratic administration that continues the worst policies of its predecessor and fails to pass an agenda of its own, from a more personal perspective an awful lot of people worked to win power, and they should do something with it.
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A thing I wish Democrats understood about the right wing living in a world of make believe is that it frees Democrats up to pursue bolder policy goals without paying a political price. If you do nothing, they'll just tell egregious lies about you, so why not do something.
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