South Korea is pissed and getting more pissed over the revelations of how their nationals were treated by ICE goons. Let's be clear, as the post above notes, this is a confluence of MAGA. You have the racist ICE agents calling Korean engineers "Rocket Man". You have the contempt for batteries and renewable energy. You have the rank chaos of having shit posters in positions of power.
Meanwhile, in other rural parts of Trumpistan, the trade war with China is crushing soybean farmers. In Pennsylvania, farmers can't find laborers, because of deportations.
As Krugman notes, we have a genuine housing crisis created by supply constraints. Some Blue states are easing zoning laws to build more dense housing, but Trump's policies are to deport workers and levy tariffs on Canadian lumber.
I "get" the Democratic strategy of assuming that Trump is driving the American economy off a cliff and the best thing they can do is try and mitigate the damage. Voters will likely reward them anyway. However, we are mired in this period of partisan polarity and narrow elections like the late 19th century. It's going to take a crisis to break that and usher in a new Progressive Era, where we can change the fundamental rules surrounding things like wealth taxes and access to important public goods. Plus, we will have to fumigate the temples of democracy from the spread of Trump's malignant authoritarianism.
I understand why you would want to help stop this, because you're a good person and wanted to become a Congressperson to help people. Still, you cannot help Trump escape the hole he's digging for himself.
I would think that was obvious.
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