right now he s facing very low ratings on his handling of the border. and there is kind of a action reaction cycle to the way the american public responds. when trump was impoedsing his ard line policy when he was in office. there was a big backlash against that. biden has tried to unwind many of the policies and polls suggest there s a backlash against it. i have been writing about immigration since the early 1990 ds. and the two north stars i have felt and guided all the way through. americans are pragmatic. they do not believe it is plausible or realistic to deport the 11 million or so undocumented individuals or here in the u.s. and they favor some kind of policy that will allow them to stay. on the other hand americans believe in the rule of law. and they want the border to be orderly and under control. and that balance is very hard for presidents of either party
is what is driving that? glng we have an action reaction cycle where donald trump is appealing to white racial ceptments more openly since george wallace in 1968 and partly in response and partly in response to the changing nature of the democratic base and coalition. i think the democratic candidates are clearly talking more explicitly about the idea of systemic racism or systematic racism or institutional segregationism than any democratic candidate since really i covered national politics in 84. even obama and clinton. i think much more than obama or clinton. hillary clinton dipped her toe into those kind of arguments. when you hear the things beto o rourke said at the last democratic debate in houston where he argued the introduction of slavery more than the declaration of independence was in essence the foundational moment in shaping american history, i mean that is kind of