Stopping the bleeding at the border and deportations are two totally different things. We will not end up with a construction workforce shortage. We will not end up with a shortage of produce. This isn’t an inflation contributor, and if it becomes one, I’d expect Trump to react to that and loosen and have some sort of Bush era guest worker program.
Your crime rate anecdote is logical. I do not know about the numbers, but I get what you’re saying.
In terms of what Dem politicians do, in general, they don’t push back on various narratives that range from wildly unpopular social issues from DEI to trans issues to unpopular climate mandates to pronoun usage to defining what a woman is. Therefore, en masse, they’re seen to be complicit. Specifically, they protect politicians like Tlaib fomenting even more unpopular initiatives.
On the last paragraph, I’d like to reiterate I didn’t vote Trump or Cruz and for the first time in my life, voted their foes instead of abstaining. I just see, very clearly, the issues. Dems are totally lost right now because of their failure to address immigration, their refusal to combat the most fringe elements of their party, and because of inflation that was not the fault of Biden. Depending on the independent voter that went Trump this round, I suspect 90% of them voted with one of those 3 issues at the forefront of their brains, and in hindsight it makes sense. There is now a persistence of elitism amongst the left talking heads, and a very clear lack of acceptance of this. It is evident everywhere in this forum. Maher has been calling it out for about 2 years, and yall don’t like him now.