Greg Sargent (@gregsargent.bsky.social)
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You cannot overstate how badly the media botched it re public opinion on immigration. People turned off their brains and forgot what was long obvious: Opinion on this is thermostatic. Trump isn't a magical exception. We need a better discourse on this: https://newrepublic.com/article/196154/stephen-miller-erupts-fury-low-arrests-and-hands-dems-weapon
  • InevitableSwing [none/use name]@hexbear.netOPEnglish
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    17 days ago

    I didn’t know what “thermostatic” meant in this context so I googled.

    This phenomenon – where public preferences shift in the opposite direction of government action – is known as thermostatic politics.

    I seriously wonder if Sargent can have any sort of normal conversations with ordinary people.