Quick🧵on why the fascist-hijacked Republican Party will win its war on American democracy if Democrats keep caving to their scaremongering re: racial justice. Today, the frontlines of the war are in Sacramento, CA. It's about the #VisionAct.
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Despite all of the advances CA has made to protect immigrant communities, we continue to have double standards for criminals based on where they're from. I wrote previously about why this is morally wrong. jezebel.com/no-country-for…
What happens in CA has ripple effects nationwide. If CA Democrats fail to show leadership on this issue, they shouldn't be surprised when D's in D.C. cave to nativists on immigration reform and we continue to have a terrorized, subjugated class of 11M people in the US.
Trump's white nationalist agenda wouldn't have been possible without Obama's record-high deportations and rhetoric that conflated immigration with criminality in the public imaginations. True progress is impossible unless D's dictate new terms for the debate.
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