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this post was submitted on 10 Feb 2025
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You are a major political party. You govern half of the states and at-risk populations are already moving across the country because they scramble towards a sanctuary. You are well-connected to unions, civil rights groups and other orgs about to get fucked over by the federal government. You regularly recruit tens of thousands of campaigning volunteers. You run the second-largest political fundraising network in the world. A metric fuckton of government employees from all possible backgrounds are about to get fired. The half of the country that isn't gloating over mass deportations may be at the most mobilizable moment in their entire life. And there's millions of people that need protection because they are about to get hit by the seething rage of a fascist government.
So yeah, what could you possibly do?
Comrade this feels weird, I am not trying to call you out but respectfully I feel your estimates of the popularity of deporting undocumented workers is too high. This is a recent poll shows the base question of βdeporting all undocumented personsβ, while it has a plurality, is only at 43%. I like that AP poll because it asks a number of questions that show Americans are all over the map on this issue. Like, Americans seems to distinguish quite a bit between deporting recent and not recent migrants. Strongly against separating families. Yeah Americans are very very in favor of deporting βviolent criminalsβ but put yourself in the shoes of a typical American trying to answer that question when asked.
I only push back on this because I believe strongly that there is a tremendous opportunity for the left in the US to seize on the opportunity and do the right thing: boldly take a stand for undocumented workers and push for their rights, and I think it will be more popular than most realize.
yeah, the question gets remarkably different answers depending on how it's asked (naturally) as do trans questions and others. it's really reductive and misleading to just blanket buy that 80% of the country is in absolute lockstep on trump policies and it will lead to strategic errors in organizing for those who are actively involved in it if they don't take advantage of what will clearly be growing unrest because they've resigned themselves to inaction against some nonexistent mandate
in short, communists should not be taking cues from hakeem jefferies