The most important aspect of the debate over ronabux is that it shows how little the GOP cares for everyday people. This process is like pulling teeth, and when you see how little they give Americans compared to various interest groups, it makes you want to grab a pitchfork 1/
So yeah there is a debate over opening the country back up and a debate over the economic implications of ronabux, but those are apart from this perhaps more important aspect: the party that claims to be patriotic, pro-America, pro-worker... isn't 2/
If you're extremely online this is a shoulder shrug moment but normies are seeing this for the first time and it's important to tell them what they feel is correct and true 3/
"Democrats are worse".... okay? The issue is that the GOP pretends to offer an alternative, but doesn't. Democrats at least tell you that they're going to stab you in the face. I can appreciate that more than I can patrioteering 4/
"The Democrats are the socialist party" say GOP lawmakers siphoning millions to colleges and the Kennedy Center so that the socialists can enjoy tenure and luxuriate 5/
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Consider: by boosting this narrative, both the left and the GOP benefit if they can use it to convince more people that immigration is only good and thus create a renewed consensus around liberalized immigration 1/
Trump did better with some nonwhite/immigrant groups, but Democrats still took the lion's share and won the popular vote. George W. Bush got 44 percent of the Latino vote in 2000, which is a larger percentage than Trump... but the tables have turned and we can do amnesty now? 2/
It is in the interest of the left to push panic porn in the fashion of: "oh man Democrats are shook because they won only 80% of X group instead 85% wow please GOP don't open the borders, anything but that!" 3/
Childlessness is making our politics insane because people have no higher loyalty to anything but a dumb political ideology, whether that is cringe libertarianism or even more cringe "conservatarianism" or leftoidism 1/
Granted, there are worse types like David French, who are willing to offer up their children on the altar of ideology. But the childlessness issue is real and apparent. Political affiliation becomes like family for so many people 2/
I don't want my children growing up in a concrete billion person jungle and I don't care about your liberty club or humanitarian club. I want to crush whatever obstacles and sacred cows and ideologies threaten a better future for my family 3/
"Give me a logical argument" is misleading because people who say "open your arms to foreigners" begin from the point of ideology. That is, there is no argument that can convince them that humans aren't interchangeable Legos and all that matters is GDP go brrr 1/
A conservative solution *should* be to address the root causes of declining fertility rates: pro family policies (but that's usually socialism!). Moreover, the slightest understanding of immigration shows that 1) it overwhelmingly favors the Democratic Party ... 2/
... 2) the longer immigrants are in the United States, the more likely they are to lose those "traditional views" conservatives pretend to value. Second, third gen immigrants start thinking and sounding like your average leftoid on sex, drugs, abortion, religion, gun control 3/
Today, Business Insider published a story about Jared Kushner using a shell company to enrich himself and his allies with $617 million in reelection cash and Charlie Kirk ran cover for him. Also today, Politico announced Kirk's appointment to the 1776 Commission 1/
Also on the commission is Brooke Rollins, who is an ally to Kushner and one of the most subversive people in the White House. Rollins is also going to be running Trump's post-presidency with an eye to getting him reelected in 20204 2/
The Populism Inc grift is virtually indistinguishable from Conservatism Inc at this point. It's nothing but self-helping and scamming and half-fulfilled promises undermined by bigger blunders 3/
Here's a perfect example of how fake "Populism Inc" is under people like Charlie Kirk. On the same day Business Insider publishes an explosive story about Kushner's shell company that secretly paid the president's family members and spent $617 million in reelection cash... 1/
...Kirk publishes a piece puffing up Kushner's "legacy," which amounts to exactly zero for Americans, least of all those who believe in America First as a concept 2/
Here are some snips from the story Kirk doesn't want you to read or believe: "Jared Kushner approved the creation of a shell company that spent almost half of the Trump campaign's $1.26B war chest, a person familiar with the operation told Insider exclusively." 3/
A lot of responses to this thread, so I'll say: If after all that has happened, he has chosen Ivanka to carry the torch after him and Brooke Rollins to "advance the MAGA agenda," then Trump himself is promoting globalism. When do you stop blaming advisors and start blaming Trump?
After four years, Trump continues to promote people who are antagonistic to "America First" as a concept while leaving allies out to dry. I've written extensively on bad actors within the WH, but at the end of the day, and at the end of the first term, Trump let it all happen
"There is no Trumpism without Trump" -- Trump himself is killing Trumpism by promoting and delegating to enemies of the ideas of 2016