I mean, the thing is that most Democrats *aren't* engaged in this debate and instead the media is trying to make the debate happen because they're desperate for "Dems In Disarray" stories based on a single tweet by a rando vaguely-Dem-associated political consultant.
I mean for fuck's sake, y'all, the overwhelming majority of Dems are on Team Due Process and are shouting it from the rooftops!
To prove my point:
Thank you, Sen. Van Hollen, for standing up not just for Kilmar Abrego Garcia and his family but for every American who believes in due process.
We can't stop speaking out until he is home and this administration is forced to stop its horrific practice of kidnapping people without charge or trial.
See?
The debate is happening almost *entirely* between contrarian political pundits desperate for attention, not Elected Dems.
If you think you can't make a political issue out of "people shouldn't be grabbed off the street and put in a foreign gulag forever," maybe consider getting out of politics/punditry. And these aren't technical slogans: they appear in the Declaration of Independence and in the Constitution (twice).
Is there any evidence that a significant portion of the Democratic Party is actually listening to these rando consultants, tho?
Cuz I sure haven't seen any besides a handful of anonymous quotes, a misrepresentation of a Gavin Newsom statement, and a tweet from a rando consultant.
It's getting very hard to avoid the conclusion that a major problem with the Democratic Party right now is that its consultancy and other agenda-defining members more or less agree with Republicans on immigration
I'm just...
...listen, I get it, being inundated with never-ending info is exhausting, and it's not like even *I* ask myself "how do I know what I think I know" after I take in every new piece of information, but grand, sweeping claims like "Dems agree with GOP on immigration" need interrogating!
They are simple people: they see a tweet, they believe the tweet
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