In a PRRI poll, 67% who view Trump positively say undocumented immigrants are "poisoning the blood of our country." Large majority of overall Americans disagrees. MAGA impulse is all about expulsion/purification of the nation (@jamellebouie.netnewrepublic.com/article/1862...
The second last sentence is, almost literally, the greatest success of the USA, & is the America that Trump claims was great. The democratic experiment is, more obviously now, imperfect, & never was, but, excluding Native Americans the striking thing about the USA was how it could welcome "others".
Vance can’t have it both ways. He wants you to think he piously just wants "debate" over immigration, even as he actively helps Trump stoke violent hatreds in order to seize power. Vance has no qualms about what Trump is up to. It's reprehensible. 6/6 newrepublic.com/article/1862...