Our national narrative hasn't yet come to terms with Trump's unprecedented betrayal of the country. No American President has ever challenged the fundamental rationale for our founding as Trump did.
Decades of GOP policy nihilism and political hysteria on the border and immigration has made it far harder for the US to fashion a smart set of lasting solutions to these challenges.
But Biden must lean into these issues now, and work through them.
The increased flow at the US border is being driven in part by COVID weakening economies to our south.
If the US wants to prevent what could become destabilizing societal erosion due to COVID we need to launch a campaign to end COVID in the Americas now.
The transformation of the Southwest from a lean GOP region to a strong Dem one perhaps most significant geographic shift in US politics over past two decades.
Dems would not have their majorities in Congress w/o the gains made in the Southwest.
Some thoughts on how to think about Trump’s historic and unprecedented betrayal of the country.
It is critical we get this story right and not allow the GOP to flush any of it down the memory hole. ndn.org/blog/2021/04/u…
When we look back at the Trump era, we will wonder, again and again, how his vile courtship of Putin and other dictators wasn't enough to throw him from office.
These are statements of betrayal, betrayal of everything America ever stood and fought for.
When we look back with clear eyes at the degree of Putin's hold over Trump - and the GOP's years of covering it up - it will be hard to explain how this wasn't more central to the politics of this era.
Tomorrow and every Friday in April at 2pm ET we will be presenting our big picture look at the success of America's center-left over past generation of US politics
Next Tuesday at 1pm ET we host two dear friends @KennethBaer@AndreiCherny for a look back at their journey with their influential intellectual journal, Democracy (@DemJournal).
NYT just called it among most influential pubs of Biden era (2/x).
Peeps, to help celebrate/promote the American Jobs Plan, we've rebooted our big presentation about how the two parties have handled the US economy over past 30+ years.
We will be showing it every Fri in April - come watch! Will leave you uplifted (1/x). ndn.org/WithDemocrats
"The economy does better—far better—when we have Democratic presidents. In terms of job creation, median income, health care, and yep, even the stock market, the economy does better—the American people do better—under Democratic presidents" - @mtomasky
At what point do prominent lawyers and elected officials start demanding an apology from Chief Justice Roberts and a reconsideration of his gutting the Voting Rights Act in 2013?
There is a lot of good data out there about what's happening at the border right if people want to look for it.
What follows is a short thread linking to data from @pewresearch. (1/x).
"The U.S. Border Patrol apprehended nearly 100,000 migrants at the U.S.-Mexico border in February, the tenth consecutive month of increased apprehensions and a return to levels last seen in mid-2019."
If border apprehensions remain at 100k a month this year for the whole year, 2021 would be an average year in the years of heavy migrant flows, the mid 1980s through 2007 or so.
This is not new, and we have far more border agents today (3/x).
If proto MAGA/right wing Republicans had not blocked the three big efforts to pass bi-partisan immigration reform in 2006, 2007 and 2013 the Biden Administration would have far more capacity to manage the challenges of Central American migration to the US.
The big messes Biden is dealing with - the economy, COVID, migrant flows from Central America, epic cyber hacks, Russian belligerence, enormous deficits, incoherent trade policy, etc - have all been made far far worse by years of GOP policy nihilism and recklessness.
Don’t think people realize there are no GOP alternatives to what Biden is trying to do - there is no GOP plan to defeat COVID, reboot the economy, manage the deficit, create a regional solution to the migrant flows, climate, infrastructure on and on.