Trump Blurts Out Dark Truth About Stephen Miller's Ugly, Hateful Aims (Greg Sargent)

[highplainsdem]

Sargent's podcast with Tory Gavito, the president of Way to Win.

https://newrepublic.com/article/196787/trump-blurts-dark-truth-stephen-miller-ugly-hateful-aims

Transcript: https://newrepublic.com/article/196789/transcript-trump-blurts-dark-maga-truth-handing-dems-weapon

Suddenly, Democrats have a bunch of new openings to go on offense against President Donald Trump on immigration. First, Trump just openly admitted that his mass deportations are harming farmers and the economy. Second, Stephen Miller got into a yelling match with a GOP senator over deportation funding. And finally, Senator Alex Padilla was manhandled by Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem’s goons, thrown to the ground and handcuffed—all because he tried to ask Noem a question about Trump’s likely illegal dispatching of troops into Los Angeles. We think all this suggests that the MAGA coalition is coming under new strains on this issue. And as it happens, the progressive group Way to Win just released some new polling that finds Democrats do have an opening to go on offense on immigration. So we’re talking about all this with Way to Win’s president, Tory Gavito. Thanks for coming on, Tory.

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Sargent: Absolutely. I want to go to what President Trump said today, and we’ll come back later to this incident with Padilla and what it reveals. Trump really made an extraordinary admission. Here’s what he tweeted on Truth Social, “Our great Farmers and people in the Hotel and Leisure business have been stating that our very aggressive policy on immigration is taking very good, long time workers away from them, with those jobs being almost impossible to replace.” Tory, that’s really something. It’s a straight up admission that his own policy of mass deportations is targeting hardworking people—not criminals, hardworking people—whose jobs cannot be replaced when they are removed. Your thoughts on this?

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Sargent: That is amazing. I want to move to your polling now. You guys polled 1,000 voters in competitive congressional districts. You found that 50 percent of voters still do have confidence in Trump generally on immigration. But at the same time, you find that 52 percent oppose how enforcement is being carried out. And I thought this was critical: Younger Latinos are turning on Trump over enforcement in your polling, right? That seems key to me because it suggests an opening for Dems to deepen this fracture, as you guys put it, in the Trump coalition and repair relations with the younger Latinos and drive the wedge more, right?

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Gavito: There’s no hiding under the covers on this one. This is the thing that I think more Democrats need to understand about the modern media environment. We’re talking about this on a podcast. I am convinced a number of other podcasters across the ecosystem are talking about some version of this, whether they’re taking a left, right, or center stance. Everybody’s talking about it. I was at the gym yesterday and I saw people scrolling in between their sets, looking at images from these protests. Across the ecosystem from mainstream media to digital media, people are having this conversation. And there are some Democrats that hope that they can just.... There were Democrats at the start of the year that said, Can we just play dead? Can we just play dead and let Trump [hoist] himself by his own petard? But when you don’t talk about it, you’re not in the discourse, you’re not relevant, and you’re not seen as fighting for something.

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[travelingthrulife]

1. Democrats have an opening. So what do they do? 1/3 of them vote to applaud

the goons of ICE.

[BOSSHOG]

2. So I d. Trump am telling

All you farmers and hotel owners and those of you who profit from the leisure business, I am not responsible for you losing your workers thereby hurting your businesses and our economy. You know I’d never do that. I will find out who is responsible and harshly admonish them.

There’s still seats available for my birthday parade.

[surfered]

3. Our President is a demented idiot who gets notions.

Facts seldom get in the way. This one time facts prevailed. The fact that immigrants harvest our food has been well known by most sentient beings for a long time.