The Real Reason Why Some Republicans Are Upset With Trump's DACA Decision

[TomCADem]

The beauty of DACA was that President Obama implemented a very sane administrative implementation of the immigration laws, yet Republicans could still attack it with coded language about Executive over reach without actually having to deal with the underlying merits of the program. As a bonus, they could also bash on President Obama.

However, with Trump giving congressional Republicans what they say they wanted, they now actually have to choose between taking a sensible, humane approach to Dreamers versus catering to their racist base. Republicans do not want to actually make this choice. They would rather just piss and moan about President Obama.

Conversely, by throwing Congressional Republicans under the bus, Trump gets to show them that the racist Republican base is with him.

[world wide wally]

1. They have to consider the good people in their neo-Nazi, and Klan base

[shanny]

2. Puts them on the spot. Thanks, shitgibbon!

[TomCADem]

3. The Downside is that This Could Just Convince The GOP to Go Full Racist...

...by throwing DACA to Congress, Congressional Republicans will not defy their racist base. They will try to blame Democrats, but at the end of the day, Republican members of Congress will not be able to resist sucking up to the white nationalists whose support they cultivated.

The problem is that once reality settles in that Republicans are essentially white nationalists, but now without the lipstick of plausible deniability, do we end up further down the road to fascism?

[shanny]

5. We are far down that road already,

and most don't or haven't known it. The hoods have been pulled off now, it is up to all of us to pull back from the abyss.

[uponit7771]

6. " ... to go..." naw, they already there and bought the MAGA hat. The KGOP are Red Dons enablers

[JI7]

4. so the same as ACA

[arthritisR_US]

8. Nailed it!

[davsand]

9. He has now forced them to go on the record in a critical election cycle.

The orange assailant just forced the GOP to go out in public and talk about a sensitive subject that is going to make them look terrible to a percentage of voters in this upcoming election. His "antics" already have a lot of people upset and talking about backlash at the polls. and now he's put them ALL in the sights of pissed off voters. (He's the kid in class who is pissing off the teacher and now they ALL are gonna have to pay for it, to put it in elementary terms.)

I also think there's a percentage of the GOP who are genuinely horrified at how bad this openly political attack on DACA today is gonna screw up the economy. Wall Street is likely to drop because of the impact of the DACA decision, and NOBODY wants to see that.

Donnie just stuck his orange johnson in a bear trap, and I'm not sure he fully realizes yet just how bad this is gonna hurt.



Laura

[TomCADem]

10. This Also Wipes Out Potential GOP Primary Challengers in 2020

At the end of the day, the Republican party worked hard to cultivate white nationalists. They dominate Republican primary voters. Now, all the would-be challengers now have to go on record either supporting Trump by echoing what he has said about DACA or go against him and disqualifying themselves as a viable primary challenger. Even so-called establishment candidates like Romney ultimately won their races by tacking toward the racist right during the primaries. At the end of the day, the most cohesive segment of the Republican base is the white nationalist element.

Of course, this element is also the most likely to go along with sabotaging voting rights laws in order to retain power.