Absent from the public space is a revelation of intent on "Border Security:" Republicans who have drawn their most ardent support from the boogeyman of dark skinned immigrant invasion, "infestation" by caravans of Spanish speaking people who will poison the blood of this white nation, do not want this invasion or the daily videos to stop.
Speaker Mike Johnson wants to kill off the last remaining glimmers of hope for a bipartisan immigration compromise to emerge from Congress this year. The House will move ahead next week with its drive to impeach Alejandro N. Mayorkas, the homeland security secretary, and demands that Congress embrace either an immigration crackdown bill the House passed last year or an equally severe measure.
--New York Times
It's their best bludgeon with which to beat the Democrats.
For decades the southern border has festered and Congress, the only branch of government having the power to fix it--if any branch has the power, and it's not clear there really is a fix--has refused to act because acting would take courage, study, steadfastness and would likely have no political gain.
But only now are the Republicans acknowledging publicly what Democrats have said all along: Republicans, (most especially Trump) do not want to fix the border because without that border in upheaval, Trump might not get elected. Trump and his party need that border cauldron to keep boiling.
It would be as if Hitler suddenly discovered all the Jews had left Germany. Where then is the urgency for electing the Nazis?
Without that coming infestation, invasion, what is the Republican party?
These are the "replacements" which so terrify the Trump base, which motivated those January 6th insurrectionists.
Trump openly called Speaker Johnson to tell him that.
So we will elect Trump, who will string up barb wire, build walls to tunnel under and scream about the poisoning for as long as it plays.
None of this is new, of course. Hitler and Goebbels knew it and used it, and generations of American politicians did to. In fact, Bob Dylan wrote a song about it, which he performed at the Newport Jazz Festival in 1963: Only a Pawn in their Game.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NSmkeb_7uq0
The weak minded manipulated.
Mad Dog,
ReplyDeleteYup…The last thing Trump and his GOP lackeys want is progress on the border. Our compromised border is the gift that keeps on giving in more ways than one. This is the issue most frequently raised by my Republican friends and Democrats will likely pay a high political toll come November if it appears nothing has been done to rectify the situation. It is rather amazing that Trump, McConnell and Johnson aren’t even attempting to hide what they have up their sleeve- keeping the border an open wound until after the election. They are confident many voters will fail to connect the dots- thanks in large part to the most important and influential player of these times- FOX News…
Maud
It's, of course, so obvious to those of us with eyes. Then again, did you know that Taylor Swift had corrupted the Super Bowl in her efforts to put Biden in the White House? Who knew? Trumpies knew! We are just so blind.
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