The replies to this tweet are filled with MAGA types basically saying "Actually people love watching videos of masked agents arresting weeping US citizens, this is what the public wants, we will face no political backlash for this" Good luck with that approach, I guess.
Jeremiah Johnson 🌐
Jeremiah Johnson 🌐Dec 4, 07:07
I don't think the MAGA movement understands how bad stuff like this is for them. They've built a whole apparatus whose purpose is performative cruelty. It doesn't care about your citizenship status, it mostly cares about smashing faces in the ground, any faces. Aside from the obvious fact that this is morally reprehensible - random raids where citizens and non-citizens alike are dragged around by masked police, children being ripped away from weeping mothers, men getting black-bagged because they look brown - they seem to think they can do this with no political repercussions. They're very wrong.
Thermostatic backlash is one of the strongest forces in politics. Illegal immigration surged under Biden, favorability of immigration went down. Now Trump's overreaching and favorability is boosted again, it's at all time highs. The thermostat's coming for you too, MAGA
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