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His supporters luv,luv,luv his immigration
"policies".
That's because his immigration policies are a combination of racism and white nationalism. His supporters wanted racism and got it in spades. Of course they're happy.
But let's be clear, that's not a rational immigration policy. It's just hatred wrapped in a veneer of law and order.
At this point, I'm agreeing with the commentator quoted earlier today (or maybe yesterday, as I'm a bit behind in reading). I'm not sure I want to see a blue wave in the mid terms. I'm ready to give the MAGA idiots everything they voted for. They want to close the borders, close 'em. They want to evict immigrants, evict them (really, lets help them quietly self deport to some place where they can be safe). They want Trump's grifting, let him grift. They want his ruination of the US standing in the world, so be it.
But then when the inevitable fall out from all of this happens, let them suffer the full brunt of it. You didn't want your children or grandchildren to be vaccinated? So sorry they died or were crippled from a preventable disease. You wanted inexpensive food? So sorry, you evicted all the people that grew and picked and processed the fruits and vegetables you liked. Grow your own, I guess. Or put up with crap food that makes you unhealthy. You wanted spending cuts so taxes could be cut? Fine. Do without good roads and safe food supply and fire departments that help you when you're in trouble. Do without public defenders so that when you are accused of a crime, the overworked and underpaid junior attorney that should help you defend yourself only has time to suggest you plead guilty in exchange for dropping a charge and a shorter sentence for the crime you didn't actually commit. Do without unemployment benefits so that when you lose your job you also lose your car and your home in short order.
Let things get as bad as they can so they have to suffer everything they brought on themselves, and live a short, brutish life under the government they wanted.
Eventually all these MAGA idiots will either die off or finally see the error of their choice and we can, if we're lucky, reinstate the old constitution that we tossed aside during the 3rd extension of Trump's 2nd term and implement some reforms to keep this from happening again. Then, if we're VERY lucky, we might return as a second class country with someone else (my guess is China) as the world's economic and military superpower.
The only way a blue wave will work is if it's a huge wave, putting a supermajority in both the House and Senate, allowing impeachment of both Trump and Vance in short order and giving the Presidency to the Speaker of the House. That would need to be followed with some true reforms to codify many of the "gentlemen's agreements" we operated under until the last decade or so.
Unfortunately, neither of these scenarios is likely. What is most likely is the House turning blue with a fairly small margin, while the Senate remains under MAGA control. There will be a House investigation or three, possibly another Trump impeachment that fails in the Senate (I'd prefer they didn't bother), and a huge amount of gridlock in Congress. Heck, they might not even be able to pass bills renaming Post Offices, which was the bulk of Congressional business a few sessions back.
I am not hopeful for the country. We boomers have wreaked our havoc and will be cursed by generations yet to be born.
--Peter
