The popular narrative may have been wrong, but it was popular in large part because Republicans didn’t want to abandon voodoo economics, so they fake-embraced immigration, and because they also kept control of the House, Democrats had to choose between immigration and nothing.
https://twitter.com/davidshor/status/1443929967998423051
It’s interesting to imagine what the world might look like if Dems had won back the trifecta in 2012, but they didn’t. Maybe that led to Trump. But then they fought Trump on narrow health care grounds, and are now trying to spend trillions race neutrally by taxing the rich.
It’s true that race and immigration are more prominent issues in the culture now, and that’s reflected in some party/party-adjacent rhetoric. But unless the argument is “re-elected Obama should’ve done nothing” no one can point to a single, fateful error because there wasn’t one.
Or rather, the errors happened earlier and were in the democracy and partisan warfare space: not recognizing the dangers of the GOP, keeping the filibuster, negotiating over the debt limit, inadequate stimulus, the 2010 wipeout and partisan gerrymandering.
• • •
Missing some Tweet in this thread? You can try to
force a refresh
