hander e gerryman der dered, they lo a democrat because the tax cut wasn t resonating with the pennsylvania voters. instead, he has to backtrack and say, you know what seems to resonate? this idea that undocumented people are rapists. what seems to resonate is there is illegal fraud voting in california, which is not true, but it is a dog whistle, saying latinos are not american, which is again not the case. instead of trying to find real solutions, being proactive, as you said, stephanie, saying, look, immigration is at an all-time low, borders crossings at an all-time low, instead, he s actually saying, the easiest thing for him to do, which has always been to divide this country. divide the idea that we actually have a possibility of a future with celebrating our immigration roots. instead, of providing real policy. easy to divide this country. the challenge is for the country to come together and rise up.
what happened on friday was not surprising. sadly enough, we knew it was coming, but from a larger perspective, we know that trump is going back to his immigration roots. this is his safe space. when he s feeling threatens and folks who were supposed to be on his team are attacking him, he can hunker down and come back to this. he hasn t had any real wins on immigration y. the muslim ban never went into effect. within all of this, i see a political silver lining. and the silver lining is that even though trump pardoned arpaio, the folks in the county said we know sheriff joe. all of the offenses you committed. you hog tied inmates. you shackled pregnant women as they were giving birth. you would put people out in 115 degree weather in tent cities. so all of these things pushed the voters to oust the sheriff.