Trump Has Got Democrats Right Where He Wants Them
- 6 years ago
Trump Has Got Democrats Right Where He Wants Them
If Dems are looking at 2018, it’s not just the immigration issue
that is important to those women but Trump’s stance on women’s issues in general — critical of planned parenthood, abortion, his support of Roy Moore in Alabama, his disdain for political correctness and his overall boorishness may counter whatever gains he may get, on immigration, from older white non-college men and women (and even the latter support may be more tenuous).
In a Jan. 26 statement that received wide press coverage, she described Trump’s proposal as
“part of the Trump Administration’s unmistakable campaign to make America white again.”
After Trump reiterated his immigration proposals in his State of the Union address Tuesday night, Pelosi stood firm in her opposition:
The president represents himself as generous towards Dreamers,
but he is holding them hostage with the most extreme anti-immigrant agenda in generations.
In a detailed critique of the Trump proposal, William Frey, a demographic specialist at Brookings, argued that
the so-called compromise between DACA and border security is extremely disproportional — weighted heavily toward the latter which is characterized by simple bumper sticker messages about family migration, border security and the visa lottery
that is aimed at appealing to the extreme anti-immigrant wings of Trump’s Republican base.
Bruce Cain, a political scientist at Stanford, makes the case that political logic favors Democratic cooperation with Trump on immigration:
If the Democrats compromise on a few of the non-DACA items
and the (Congressional) Republican position is no DACA relief, then the Republican position becomes untenable and looks as though are caving to their extreme nativist faction.
If Dems are looking at 2018, it’s not just the immigration issue
that is important to those women but Trump’s stance on women’s issues in general — critical of planned parenthood, abortion, his support of Roy Moore in Alabama, his disdain for political correctness and his overall boorishness may counter whatever gains he may get, on immigration, from older white non-college men and women (and even the latter support may be more tenuous).
In a Jan. 26 statement that received wide press coverage, she described Trump’s proposal as
“part of the Trump Administration’s unmistakable campaign to make America white again.”
After Trump reiterated his immigration proposals in his State of the Union address Tuesday night, Pelosi stood firm in her opposition:
The president represents himself as generous towards Dreamers,
but he is holding them hostage with the most extreme anti-immigrant agenda in generations.
In a detailed critique of the Trump proposal, William Frey, a demographic specialist at Brookings, argued that
the so-called compromise between DACA and border security is extremely disproportional — weighted heavily toward the latter which is characterized by simple bumper sticker messages about family migration, border security and the visa lottery
that is aimed at appealing to the extreme anti-immigrant wings of Trump’s Republican base.
Bruce Cain, a political scientist at Stanford, makes the case that political logic favors Democratic cooperation with Trump on immigration:
If the Democrats compromise on a few of the non-DACA items
and the (Congressional) Republican position is no DACA relief, then the Republican position becomes untenable and looks as though are caving to their extreme nativist faction.