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Jay C4/22/2017 10:37:09 am PDT

re: #295 makeitstop

Josh Marshall has a pretty good take on it - To Scare Dems, Trump Threatens to Light Himself on Fire

As much as I like, and agree with most/much of Josh Marshall’s analyses, while I think he’s right about the government shutdown thing, I also think he’s slightly underestimating the relative “popularity” of Trump and his Administration’s policies towards “immigration” in general. While support for the extreme version of “The Wall” (i.e. an “impenetrable” Berlin-style death-zone barricade) - still less the funding for it- is probably fairly low, a widespread negative attitude towards “immigrants”is a major defining factor for the GOP/Trump “base”. Congressional Democrats, IMO, are going to have to tread a fine line to be able to counter the inevitable prejudice-based “soft on crime”/”pro-amnesty”/ultranationalist BS the Republicans are likely to throw at them in even a half-hearted attempt to fund/build the Trump Wall; either now or next election season. It is BS, of course: but since when that that ever stopped the GOP from exploiting it in political campaigns? And unfortunately, we have evidence that prejudice isn’t that much of a political loser…