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True, but right now the balance is teetering around 50/50 - sometimes the left wins, sometimes the right. If we import millions of people who lean even slightly left off center, the right will have no hope at all. They don't need to be DSA voters - they just need to vote for DSA enablers because what they hear sounds good and close to what they had at home. To get over this, one needs massive trauma like one that Eastern Europeans have - convincing those to have communism would be harder, whatever variety it is. But the rest of Europe I don't think realized what they've done yet.
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