Cause otherwise midterms discussion will be scattered around a bunch of separate Culture War thread posts. And it's nice to have more off-the-cuff rapid reactions in a dedicated megathread.
The first thing I've noticed so far: if the exit polls are correct, Americans are very pessimistic about AI.
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I guess all the "voters are stupid for caring about gas prices or a wrecked economy, destroying Iran is for our eternal glory!" talk does not actually win elections for Republicans.
Hopefully Republicans overcome their Israel fetish.
I said this down thread: Trump's approval has been in steady decline over the past two years, with a consistent drumbeat of bad news. It's gas and Iran, but it's also ICE goons and corruption and tariffs and being a vulgarian and...
(And it's also pushing bad candidates because they kissed the ring harder)
ICE goon fallout was simply the marginal electorate doing the "No, not like that!" meme for border enforcement.
They should have done border enforcement “not like that”.
I believe we should deport some illegals to maintain a decent standard of living for everyone else, but we could at least treat it as a necessary evil, harming someone to benefit more, and seek to minimize the harm. Trump’s PR gloating about ruining someone’s life is shockingly, viscerally cruel; even if the deportation was necessary, it’s horrible optics: real sadism is not healthy for society, and widely unpopular.
And I think many of the deportations were unnecessary, even accounting that Dems let in tens millions of immigrants and Reps can only deport so many. ICE should’ve focused on criminals and leeches in red states, not hard-working families who lived decades in America in blue communities. Sure, some Dems would be screaming and it would probably be depicted in news not unlike the hard-working families…but there’s a significant difference, most people (even moderate Dems) want see the former go, and would stop trusting the news (as you can see from polls on how Americans’ trust in news today, they already don’t have control over the public’s world knowledge). If you cannot deport and keep out everyone, as seems to be the case globally, mine as well mitigate the damage by deporting and keeping out the worst…or at least start with them, then see what problems remain.
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