A Gallup poll at the end of April found that 27% of Americans view immigration as the most important issue facing the country, topping the economy and inflation.
Piss off your own base to appeal to less than a third of the electorate that isn't going to vote for you anyway.
This doesn't mean that 73% don't care.
Also, the "liberal" media has been hell-bent on scaring people on the border. Truth is, a lot of moderates are concerned about the border. And they determine elections. As president, he is expected to address people's concerns.
He doesn't seem to care about people's concerns over the genocide. He picks and chooses which concerns he addresses.
The genocide is one that I can't get over. I understand the bill that got Ukrainian aid. But he won't even call it a genocide. Even with Rafah he backpedaled.
I honestly like or at least accept the majority of Biden's term. But Gaza has been a disaster that he continues to botch.
What's there to like? The further militarisation of the police? The expansion of Obama's child caging programme? Housing crisis? Funding Nazis in Ukraine?...
He's the one directly supporting it and making sure it happens. How's he gonna call it a genocide?
While you and I may care, and a lot of young college folks care.
Your "average" American could give shit less about what is going on in Gaza. If they even have any clue at all about it.
Cynicism. A majority of Americans disapprove of Israel's actions in Gaza. 55% disapprove to 36% approve.
If this goes on until November it will only get worse, but Biden doesn't care.
Biden doesn't care because he knows he'll keep more votes than he loses by supporting Israel.
As president, he is expected to address people's concerns.
Offer void for progressives' concerns.
Even more so. That 27% likely won't even hear about this since Fox News and other right wing outlets won't cover it.
It's not like the Dem base will switch their votes to Trump.
At this point, now that the nominees are decided, the political game is to attract the swing vote, which is mostly "tough on crime," anti-imigration, and anti-taxation (as it applies to them directly).
Even though none of these policies are actually good for those in the middle.
It’s not like the Dem base will switch their votes to Trump.
Treating them like guaranteed votes is going to result in people staying home. It's bad strategy.
Or, and this is crazy, he could go ask the left for votes instead of trying to pull us all even further to the right.
Not like he's actually gonna do anything about the other two.
Is this just gonna be one of those things like him and zionism where he just suddenly wants to be as right wing as possible?
I find his base to be largely split on this issue. There’s the bleeding hearts who cry for amnesty (Sky Daddy bless their souls) and the at best ambivalent and at worst lipstick racist others.
The part of the base that this anti-immigration move will anger is the same part of the base that's already angry about the genocide.
It's like he's trying to piss them off specifically and as much as possible.
I can feel the harm reduction
Empathizer in chief
noooo but trump will do it worse!
The sad thing is that's likely true. Fucking horrible
I hope US continues to become increasingly more isolationist.
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