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“Immigration and inflation.

Both are issues that produce far greater intensity than countless others that wonks and pundits carry on about. Watch your social media feeds and pay attention to the comments and memes people share, just as one form of validation.”

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The political stalemate on immigration isn't because the GOP Congress doesn't want to give Biden a "win" on the issue. Biden's request is for more money for agents and judges to process illegal immigrants faster - into the country. The money to CLOSE the border is already there and more than sufficient, it just lacks the executive commitment to actually doing it. Under Trump's presidency, with far fewer resources, the illegal crossing rate was at a trickle. Remain in Mexico and apply for asylum THERE. That policy worked just fine. They quit coming, they quit trying. Biden has funded a cell phone app, wherein the illegals can apply online and then just march across the border, be quickly "processed" and then released into the country - with a hearing date scheduled five or six years from now. Under those terms, is it any wonder millions have done so?

But as to the gist of your column, yes, immigration and inflation have enervated the voters and their intensity on these issues is high.

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Oh, clearly the "GOP" obstructionism assertion is a steaming pile. They just want to give the appearance of doing something different while leaving the big picture policy intact.

If Trump wins and the border gets controlled again, the narrative will be his inhumanity.

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To paraphrase Carville again: it's the economy and border, stupid.

Biden seems stuck on the idea that "Bidenomics" has been a wonderful idea and can't understand why people are mad that the rent is too damned high, and so is the cost of a bag of groceries. He also acts blindsided on the illegal immigration issue and particularly vexed that Hispanics want the border enforced. It's as if his handlers forgot Hispanics are, in fact, just as American as the Anglo-Saxon descendants and most detest the hyphen in front of their citizenship.

The question of whether the populace's antipathy toward the man responsible for this will outweigh the antipathy they feel toward Trump is the key question of this election.

May God help us.

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Modern politics doesn't seem to have much room for corrections or adjustments. Change your mind about a policy, even if that's due to new evidence, empirical data, or some other rational gain of information, and you're a "flip-flopper." Which is itself a shameful thing to call someone, as if getting things right is worse than sticking to your guns when you get things wrong. So, pols avoid the possibility of that like the plague.

The other part of this is that it's election season, and for Biden to reverse course on two of his feature policies (big spending and big migration) would be tantamount to a surrender, politically.

If Biden does last to election day, we will indeed be witnessing a battle of "who do I hate more."

Which is no way to run a country.

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