April 18, 2025
On making your opponents' case for them...
Today’s link is another paywalled piece from another of the very few sites I pay for. I’m going to start doing this from time to time because if someone as cheap as I am is willing to pay for these services (The Dispatch, The Free Press, Notes from the Middleground), they have to be worth about twenty times what I’m paying.
For those who just want the rundown, today’s column is about DHS notifying Afghan refugees, here legally with Temporary Protected Status, that they have seven days to leave the country. National Democratic Party messengers have long tried to make the case that Republicans, MAGA, and Donald Trump are opposed to immigration, its spokespeople happily conflating legal and illegal immigrants. The right’s response has been a reasonable, “We support legal immigration.” But now this with Afghan refugees. They aren’t gang members or campus agitators. So what is the line from the right now? I would imagine for most Republican voters, it’s still, “We support legal immigration.” For the party’s leaders, though, it’s less clear what they believe.