Trump again presses GOP on the importance on bringing in more white people in the immigration debate.
Looks like background checks are close to toast in the Senate. And that doesn’t even get to the near impossibility in the House.
Georgia Republican party chair says straights will flock to sham gay marriages to win job benefits.
In case you’re wondering, no, we don’t do April Fool’s stuff at TPM. Everything here tomorrow will be accurate or as near as we’re able to make it.
Toward the end of this op-ed Ross Douthat contends that gay marriage has self-evidently contributed to the weakening of the institution of straight marriage, and that liberals should operate from that premise when confronting their opponents. If gay marriage advocates are winning the broader argument, they should at least be willing to admit, or pretend to agree, that gay marriage opponents aren’t all just repulsed by gay people. Read More
Ezra Klein argues that the consequences of comprehensive immigration reform won’t be just positive-sum in economic terms, but politically, too.
Immigration reform, however, sits at the center of an unusual convergence of forces that have made it positive-sum politics. Democrats believe in the policy, but they also believe that it’s good — even essential — politics to deliver on the number-one priority of the growing Hispanic electorate. Many Republicans also believe in the policy, and almost all Republicans believe that if their party is to prosper, they need to agree to immigration reform to show Hispanic voters that the GOP isn’t hostile to their interests.
What we’re seeing here isn’t actually positive sum politics, but instead a situation in which both parties have examined the same issue and reached antithetical conclusions about its political consequences. Read More
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Today at TPMPrime we’re discussing the rising tide of economic inequality and why it has so little traction as a political issue.