This thread reflects a very bad tendency: The idea that if you can't bumper-sticker your position, it's inherently problematic.
If the Dem position on immigration is hard to articulate, it's because Dems are trying to engage the issue's many complexities, not demagoguing them.
If the Dem position on immigration is hard to articulate, it's because Dems are trying to engage the issue's many complexities, not demagoguing them.
https://twitter.com/ackocher/status/1376994289348182017
It's true that there are tensions and ambiguities in the Dem position. So what? These tensions and ambiguities flow from the moral and policy complexities of the challenges themselves.
Dems are trying to figure these things out right now. But that's good, not bad.
Dems are trying to figure these things out right now. But that's good, not bad.
Also, this idea that the GOP message is "effective" is sort of nonsense. Rs lost the last two national elections. We have to get our heads out of 2016. Trump *lost in 2020.* Rs *lost the House in 2018.* Immigration was central both times. Stop pretending this never happened.
I think it's true that Biden and Dems could do better in articulating a message that says, "Don't come now, but we are trying to fix the system, and we will make sure that the legal right to apply for asylum is upheld as an important value. We see migration as a fundamental good"
But that locates the "messaging" problem in a very different place than I think @ackocher does here. *FIN*
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