Hoosier Guy
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The Mexican govt has invested more resources in guarding its own southern border, and intercepting migrants before they reach ours. Illegal crossings into the US are down ~75%
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In the past year, Mexico has invested huge resources (military patrols, highway checkpoints, busing migrants en masse from northern Mexico to south etc) to prevent them from ever reaching the US border. Key reason why illegal border crossings into US are ⬇️ 75%
www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/0...
www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/0...
How Mexico is helping Biden and Harris at the U.S. border
A major reason for the drop in apprehensions at the border this year: Mexico is stopping migrants well before they reach the border.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 1, 2024 at 9:31 PM
The Mexican govt has invested more resources in guarding its own southern border, and intercepting migrants before they reach ours. Illegal crossings into the US are down ~75%
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Good. The DLC and Clinton brought the party back from the dead.
November 29, 2024 at 5:04 PM
Good. The DLC and Clinton brought the party back from the dead.
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I think this is the thing that the "Bernie would've won" people almost never seriously grapple with. The right-wing attack machine spins up derogatory narratives about everyone. You cannot imagine a counterfactual in which that isn't happening to your or another candidate. It's inevitable.
November 27, 2024 at 6:50 PM
I think this is the thing that the "Bernie would've won" people almost never seriously grapple with. The right-wing attack machine spins up derogatory narratives about everyone. You cannot imagine a counterfactual in which that isn't happening to your or another candidate. It's inevitable.
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The actual “Democrats” did not “lack empathy.” They did not forget to “reach out to the working class.” They didn’t adopt the rhetoric of “the faculty lounge.” They didn’t focus on Identity Politics at the expense of Kitchen Table concerns. And the way you know this is by opening your eyes & reading
🧵 The other part of this that is so deeply frustrating is that it fails basic tests of "Does this match empirical reality?"
The actual "Democrats" who "lack empathy" for working folks have an actual party platform. You can even actually still read it: www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/20...
The actual "Democrats" who "lack empathy" for working folks have an actual party platform. You can even actually still read it: www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/20...
In re: (A) yes, but again, we should respect voters as humans with agency & they did vote for this, whether they thought they were or not, & it was obvious this is what they were voting for
As for (B), sorry, no, we don't need to keep doing this in re: Dems & working folks: bsky.app/profile/mcop...
As for (B), sorry, no, we don't need to keep doing this in re: Dems & working folks: bsky.app/profile/mcop...
November 27, 2024 at 4:40 AM
The actual “Democrats” did not “lack empathy.” They did not forget to “reach out to the working class.” They didn’t adopt the rhetoric of “the faculty lounge.” They didn’t focus on Identity Politics at the expense of Kitchen Table concerns. And the way you know this is by opening your eyes & reading