Here are the issues with enacting immigration reform:
Republicans can easily win the Senate and electoral college while being raging racists.
By and large, the portions of the American electorate that decide federal majorities and the presidencies are quite racist and don’t want more brown people in the country so Democrats lose more votes being remotely progressive on immigration than they do by enacting even minor reforms.
The median REPUBLICAN senator is to the left of the median voter on immigration.
The president can’t executive order immigration reform since it’ll be blocked by the (often conservative) 5th Circuit court in particular, and it has to be done through Congress. Joe Biden has been trying to do immigration by executive order, including repealing Title 42 (which many Democratic senators and Senate candidates opposed), and is often blocked.
That being said, Matt Yglesias and I agree: we should bring back the bipartisan consensus on immigration reform! But like, that’s difficult given the nature of the electorate.
It feels very on the nose that a bunch of white guys on Twitter explained to me, a woman that was born in India, why I'm wrong in fearing that white people will be insanely reactionary about immigration and vote accordingly. Like, Democrats had better hope abortion is high in salience and not immigration/border security, that’s all I’m saying.
Bill Clinton accurately pointing out that Martha’s Vineyard is the first place that Black professionals were allowed to vacation on the Eastern seaboard while calling out Ron DeSantis’ insane human trafficking antics is proof that actually Democrats ARE smarter and more profound than Republicans.
We all talk about Republicans being evil, but I think we often forget they’re also craven cowards. See: Senator Mitch McConnell (R-KY) refusing to convict Trump during the second impeachment trial.
One thing that people are forgetting about Ron DeSantis as a potential presidential candidate (other than the fact Trump would absolutely crush DeSantis among Republican primary voters) is that he’s not that politically skilled. If you listen to him, he's extremely whiny and also barely won an election in a reddish state against Andrew Gillum, a Black man with a whole lot of personal/legal issues that everybody knew about, and almost croaked during a debate when Gillum called him racist. Plus like, he's short, significantly shorter than Joe Biden for one, and swing voters almost always pick the taller presidential candidate. Don't ask me to explain their logic, I voted for Hillary Clinton and was proud to do it lmao.
My two cents on the “Separating Sports by Sex Doesn’t Make Sense” article:
Gender is a social construct =/= sex doesn’t exist.
Sexual dimorphism is real, and Charles Darwin was not an idiot.
Assistant sociology professors are not experts in biology.
Why do trans women compete with cis women and trans men, despite often being on hormones, don’t compete with cis men at the collegiate or professional level? Why is the division cis men vs. “everybody that’s not a cis man?”
Fighting about recreational co-ed sports prior to puberty is stupid but when money is involved, it’s extremely obtuse to pretend that AFAB and AMAB individuals are on equal footing. The winning women’s 100m time at the world championships is 10.62 seconds and was ran by Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce in 2022. My high school’s record for the men’s 100m is 10.94 seconds and was run in 2013 by my friend, Alex Binkerd, who died a few years ago (may he rest in peace). In fact, just this year, the winning time for Washington state’s 4A division in the men’s 100m race was 10.74 seconds, and that’s nowhere near the state or national record for high school boys let alone anywhere near the world championship level for men.
If your argument is that competitive sports with a lot of money involved are holistically terrible and should never exist, men’s sports also need to be dismantled so why don’t we suggest disbanding the NCAA and NBA and NFL to the average American let alone to an executive that profits bigly from them? Hint: Don’t do this.
From an electoral perspective, Democrats running against competitive sports is the dumbest decision ever. We have the upper hand on trans issues, and the majority of Americans believe discrimination against transgender individuals in the workplace and academics is cruel and unwarranted. Glenn Youngkin’s plan to out trans kids to their parents is egregious and inhumane and extremely unpopular! But we shouldn’t squander this advantage, and Republicans know perfectly well that school/collegiate sports is a very successful wedge issue, which is why they keep harping on it.
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