And why that matters.

The last couple of weeks have made it clear that the current professional Democrat strategy of ‘popularism’, which is to say, poll-driven politics failed, at least when it comes to immigration. Yes, people, when asked about generic immigrants, people are anti-immigration. But when they’re faced with the reality of immigration–most undocumented immigrants just want to wash dishes in the back or seal coat your driveway–people change their minds.

When immigrants are depicted as MS-13 warlords turning our cities* into WWII-era Stalingrad, they’re not popular, but the reality is very different, and ICE’s brutality is forcing people to confront the lived reality of immigration and is tearing down the fantasies of the Republican Cinematic Universe.

It also appears, the fears of the popularist pollsters that immigration is bad for Democrats were wrong: it’s actually hurting Trump’s overall favorability and people’s views on his immigration policies specifically. And they didn’t just miss, the popularist pollsters swung, missed, fell down in the batter’s box, and then injured themselves.

Something to keep in mind as the popularist pollsters attempt to take over the Democratic Party.

*In suburban and rural areas, I guess they’re just limited to ‘eating the dogs’?