Conservative pundits revived the narrative almost immediately, illustrating the centrality of xenophobia to their coverage

  • TryingToBeGood@reddthat.com
    25·
    21 hours ago

    My next door neighbors are immigrants and very nice ppl who proactively shoveled my old ass out of the snow this year. Several more of my neighbors are immigrants. Lots of the people who live and work in my town are immigrants. Several of my colleagues are immigrants. (One set of my grandparents were immigrants.) Bring on the immigrants.

    • CharlesDarwin@lemmy.worldEnglish
      8·
      17 hours ago

      Think about their target demo, though. These people likely have no idea that election outcomes don’t take effect immediately. Democrats have not even been sworn in, but I bet the average Faux watcher has no idea how that works…but they’ll eat up that donnie is still fighting the super terrible Biden economy (lol), nearly 2 years later.

      • HopeOfTheGunblade@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
        3·
        17 hours ago

        Sure, but there was an election they wanted to win recently, and I do not think they can keep up migrant caravan fever for two years without people becoming fatigued? So the timing seems weird.

        • CharlesDarwin@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          1 hour ago

          That’s a good point. No idea. Maybe it’s a test run to see how much of an impact they think they can have on throwing the 2028 election.

          I could easily see the conservatives trying to do A/B testing to see how they can peel off people to vote R. You saw them freaking out about how they lost white people. Constantly talking about “men in women’s sports” didn’t work out quite the way they thought it would, so maybe they are going back to the “open borders!!!111” narrative to see what that does.

  • CharlesDarwin@lemmy.worldEnglish
    6·
    17 hours ago

    They could declare “open borders” even before one new Democrat is sworn in and donnie is still president, and I bet a whole lot of morons will believe it.

    I’ve already seen failtrolls whining their gas prices didn’t go down yet…nothing like a total dumbass trying to own someone else without even knowing the very basics.