PhDeac
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- Joined
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First, the border conditions now didn't start when Trump got in office. The detention centers were active five years ago. Trump is just saying the quiet parts out loud because he's a moron and a racist. Parents were separated from their children and people were sleeping on cement floors for months under Obama, too.
Forgiving student debt is popular.
And the fact is no candidate is going on about abolishing ICE, it's just the subject of Republican attack ads.
Letting incarcerated prisoners vote is the morally correct thing to do as well, but I don't suspect that factors in with your calculations (or know your thoughts on it personally).
What kills me about this is we'll regularly get Republican candidates talking about like...abolishing the Department of Education or dismantling the EPA. Trump has more or less gutted the administrative state. Yet Dems are utterly terrified to do anything that isn't cravenly technocratic and incremental. They'd rather court the 2% of the electorate who went from Obama to Trump than the 40% of non-voters who might get off the couch for a candidate with ideas.
Most likely they'll vote Dem this time anyway and then vote Republican in 2024 and/or 2028 because they're just contrarians who hate government and blame the president.