For all their talk of nuance, the Left is very good at conflating issues when it is in their interest. Immigration is the prime example. The Right will make a distinction between legal and illegal immigration; the Left elides that, deliberately lumping all immigrants into one category. We can't have a "real discussion about immigration" unless that crucial difference is acknowledged, and I don't know if the Left is willing to differentiate between these two populations.
Let me add that members of all political movements have a range of knowledge on issues, or reasons for supporting a policy. OWS protestors did not understand the mechanics of the banking system they were railing against; they just knew that the little guy was getting screwed while the big guys were getting bailouts.
The MAGA right doesn't make that distinction - when Trump was in office he famously refused border wall funding offered by the Democrats as part of an immigration reform bill that allowed people from, as he put it, "shithole countries" to come legally to the US.
Older school conservatives most certainly do, and if you go far back enough - to the time of GWB admin, there were a lot of Dems who opposed legal immigration because of union support.
For all their talk of nuance, the Left is very good at conflating issues when it is in their interest. Immigration is the prime example. The Right will make a distinction between legal and illegal immigration; the Left elides that, deliberately lumping all immigrants into one category. We can't have a "real discussion about immigration" unless that crucial difference is acknowledged, and I don't know if the Left is willing to differentiate between these two populations.
Let me add that members of all political movements have a range of knowledge on issues, or reasons for supporting a policy. OWS protestors did not understand the mechanics of the banking system they were railing against; they just knew that the little guy was getting screwed while the big guys were getting bailouts.
The MAGA right doesn't make that distinction - when Trump was in office he famously refused border wall funding offered by the Democrats as part of an immigration reform bill that allowed people from, as he put it, "shithole countries" to come legally to the US.
Older school conservatives most certainly do, and if you go far back enough - to the time of GWB admin, there were a lot of Dems who opposed legal immigration because of union support.