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Well, Steve Bannon told David Brooks that his pure MAGA followers want the southern border to be entirely shut.

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And, at this point, what would be the argument against that position?

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People who are entirely deserving of asylum would not get it.

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I'm not agreeing with Bannon, but the asylum thing is an incredibly weak argument.

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That was the quick and easy one but the slightly more complicated one is that Bannon is confusing a few immigrant kids with second generation crises of identity appropriate for peers of similar education with most immigrants. People with classic immigrant stories add to the self-confidence of America rather than subtract from it. Despite the fantasies of an "Emerging Democratic Majority" of 15 years ago Republicans can even now get 40% of the Latino vote easily by focusing on concrete practical issues.

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40 percent? Gee, thanks.

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Republicans are getting more of the Latino vote BECAUSE Republicans want the border controlled not in spite of that desire. Unlike the nuanced and complexity-loving Democrats, they understand how the open borders flood the land with fentanyl, with major human trafficking rings, with terrorists, and with many other forms of dysfunction that controlled legal immigration can and has limited. Besides that approach being decent in favoring the legal immigrants over the others.

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But that is not an argument for NO immigrants.

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As if Steve Bannon is some kind of authority...smh

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He is probably an authority on the people who listen to his podcast even if they are not representative of everyone who will vote for Trump this year.

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The Trump voters I know are of course a mixed bag but they are very motivated to vote against the Democrat platform as much as vote for anyone in particular. Some are enamored with Trump but I think that most are drawn to his ability to fight and get things done, more so than his specific policies. Trump's policies evolved over his first stint as he did rely on the recommendations of his staff on most policy issues. I think he will appoint a more impressive staff if he is re-elected.

In general, it seems to me that most future Trump voters like the results of his last presidency and assume the second will be similar and hopefully even more effective in caving in the craziness of the Democrat party.

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(no immigrants legal or otherwise)

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