Sure, they've moved the policy further right, but a good deal of people fall into the "they should come here 'the right way'" camp without further parsing the obstacles to "the right way", have for a while, and the prevailing view is still that the GOP is "tough" on the border and Dems are "soft".
Sure, they've moved the policy further right, but a good deal of people fall into the "they should come here 'the right way'" camp without further parsing the obstacles to "the right way", have for a while, and the prevailing view is still that the GOP is "tough" on the border and Dems are "soft".
I'd go so far as to say they aren't even trying to change public opinion, because they don't give two shits about polling or consensus. They just focus on winning a seat- and with gerrymandering, you don't have to temper your policies once you're out of the primary- then imposing their beliefs regardless of the popularity nationwide. They put enough of a veneer on it to limit pushback by talking about crime and using dead white women as political props, and that's it as far as they're concerned.
Sure, they've moved the policy further right, but a good deal of people fall into the "they should come here 'the right way'" camp without further parsing the obstacles to "the right way", have for a while, and the prevailing view is still that the GOP is "tough" on the border and Dems are "soft".
I'd go so far as to say they aren't even trying to change public opinion, because they don't give two shits about polling or consensus. They just focus on winning a seat- and with gerrymandering, you don't have to temper your policies once you're out of the primary- then imposing their beliefs regardless of the popularity nationwide. They put enough of a veneer on it to limit pushback by talking about crime and using dead white women as political props, and that's it as far as they're concerned.