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Sunday talk shows are the stuff of Baron Harkonnen’s nightmares

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"Maybe Republicans' concern for immigration and borders is based on bullshit, but it wouldn't be the first time that their policies on immigration caused them self-inflicted damage even their own voters can't deny."

This graf includes a link to a tweet noting how many workers in Florida are undocumented. Unfortunately, the conclusion that it will destroy Republicans electorally is dead wrong. Post-mortems attribute DeSantis's re-election to heavy Republican organization of Hispanic demos, such as Cubans, that are big on slamming the door shut on everybody else. The same type of demo that put both Trump and Abbott over the top in Texas (Rio Grande Valley mexicanos, in this case).

Hispanics are NOT a monolith.

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Sheesh. Moving off the phantom thread. Again.

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Ta, MM. The lunatics have taken over the running of the asylum.

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somehow I got a solicitation from Nikki Haley's campaign via my private cellphone number. I blocked it and reported it as spam. Indians aren't a monolith either, especially when one's grandfather worked with Gandhi as a translator when he would visit southern India and one's mother was a union steward.

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