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“A core MAGA idea is that mass purgings of immigrants are needed because they take the jobs of Americans…[Thus] mass deportations and [ending] mass unskilled immigration should mean all these young men will come stampeding into new jobs left vacant by now-deported invaders and [they] will flourish.”

Wasn't Elon Musk insisting that his robots could replace deported agricultural workers?

A corollary to all this that is not discussed enough is how much damage the Trump-Miller administration's atrocities against immigrants has done to the country. From the deficit, to healthcare services, to college finances and anything driven by demographics, we are in worse shape and headed down

Oh he's fuuuuuucked

"Trump’s deportations are badly underwater in polls, including in swing states." @gregsargent.bsky.social links to this poll from @gelliottmorris.com www.gelliottmorris.com/p/even-repub...

Even Republicans in Congress can see how unpopular Trump's immigration agenda isTrump's deportation agenda is underwater in every swing state. Plus, Sabato moves 13 House ratings toward Democrats. Your weekly political data roundup for August 2, 2026.www.gelliottmorris.com

“What’s actually threatening to the MAGA project, then, is the underlying idea that Mullin endorsed: that immigration can be made to function in the national interest” @gregsargent.bsky.social is spot on. For MAGA, immigration is the ur-crisis of America. It’s *always against* the nat’l interest

Their coalition was a fragile one. There are fissures and larger cracks.

"...it neatly exposes MAGA’s real position: Mass deportations must be carried out even if they hurt the economy." If you force MAGA to choose between the economy and white supremacy, they're choosing the latter every single damn time, and they'll somehow still get portrayed as "pocketbook voters."

Poor Markwayne. He lives a full life of fanatical reactionary lunkheadedness and bigotry only to be undone when a single halfway sensible thought pops out of his mouth. I would weep if I still had tears to shed.

Proof it’s never been about jobs, just hate of others

There's a chunk of right-wing media desperate for a "quieter" immigration strategy (see the disappearance of "mass deportation" language on Fox www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/fox...) but also a bunch of extremely loud voices demanding deranged maximalist policies.

Fox stars dropped “mass deportation” language months agoPresident Donald Trump’s Fox News propagandists walked away from describing his immigration policy as “mass deportations” weeks or months before a top White House aide reportedly urged House Republica...www.mediamatters.org

I don't think Markwayne Mullin understands just how dangerous a heresy he committed by suggesting that immigrants can help the US economy. He undermined the entire core mythology of MAGA. Final thoughts on all this here: newrepublic.com/article/2138...

"A darkly amusing cycle has kicked in here. The Trump administration keeps accidentally admitting that more immigration can indeed benefit our economy—and then quickly suppressing that truth when MAGA erupts over it." Indeed. Reality has a famous anti-MAGA bias...

Immigration is good... and it pisses off the white nationalists.

Like how Confederates, when faced w/ total desperation at end of revbellion, considered forcing enslaved Black men to fight. And the response was, "The day you make soldiers of them is the beginning of the end of the revolution. If slaves will make good soldiers our whole theory of slavery is wrong"

All this exposes MAGA’s real position: Mass deportations must be carried out *even if* they hurt the economy. They should be prioritized *over* economic concerns. The goal is not primarily economic: It’s about ethnically purging the country. newrepublic.com/article/2138...

It's funny that the Trump admin keeps accidentally admitting that immigrants benefit the economy, and MAGA keeps raging at them to shut up about it. Remember, Trump vowed to help prevent farms from losing good immigrant workers. Stephen Miller quicky shut it down. newrepublic.com/article/2138...

What triggered MAGA was Markwayne Mullin saying we should fix agricultural visas. The real transgression was Mullin admitting immigrants can help the economy, and that reform can *actually achieve this.* MAGA wants migration to be seen as fundamentally unmanagable. newrepublic.com/article/2138...

Remarkable: Dems have now pulled even with the GOP *on immigration* in two new national polls. A third finds Trump 22 points underwater on the the issue, and *32 points* underwater among independents. Trump has absolutely destroyed the GOP advantage on immigration. newrepublic.com/article/2138...

Awful: The local press in Maine is crediting Susan Collins for getting Trump to agree to ICE bodycams nationwide. It's cynical BS: She voted for $70 billion in ICE money and against requiring bodycams. But this kind of thing is why she could still win. New from me: newrepublic.com/article/2138...