Opinion by Greg Sargent: To defeat Trumpism, stop letting MAGA stunts drive the debate
. It was an infinitely more serious contribution to the debate than those DeSantis-Abbott stunts, but it got far less coverage.
“That’s part of the problem,” Cortez Masto told me, noting that the media are “focused on the antics of the extreme right.” Or, as Sen. Ben Ray Luján put it, the DeSantis-Abbott approach “seems to get the attention of broadcast news” because of “how hateful their actions are.”As Democratic strategist Simon Rosenberg points out, the four border states are represented by five Democratic senators and only two Republican ones — and by three Democratic governors.
on who can apply for asylum, based on a bogus use of a covid-19 related health rule and other indefensible procedural measures. This complicates efforts by Democrats to draw a sharp contrast with Republicans who portray asylum seeking as fundamentally destructive and terrifying. As Luján told me, “It’s important that there be a strong rebuke to what Abbott and DeSantis are both doing.”
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