rant · moment 14 of 29
Democrats Losing the Narrative on Open Borders
from 158 - Leaving Hell · #158
2 min
Tim argues Democrats are politically vulnerable for framing all migration as asylum-seeking and failing to run on concrete issues like healthcare, while praising Tulsi Gabbard and Bernie Sanders for not being tied to Epstein.
- Democrats have lost the narrative on open borders and don't understand how they're appearing to the other side
- Democrats have real issues to run on—an unfulfilled president, a broken health care system—but keep centering immigration policy
- If Democrats continue arguing for open borders and health care for illegal immigrants, they'll lose even more ground
- Treating all migration as asylum seeking doesn't work when the standard is fleeing violent places—that covers billions of people worldwide
- Tim acknowledges those countries are genuinely messed up but argues the logic still doesn't hold
- If someone could explain how to unwind the military-industrial complex, he'd listen and might support candidates like Tulsi or Bernie
- Bernie's appeal: he's the only major politician not connected to Jeffrey Epstein or that whole party circuit
- Epstein's disappearance left an opening—like a drug kingpin's turf being up for grabs among other elite pedophiles
Jeffrey EpsteinKamala HarrisBernie SandersTulsi GabbardDonald TrumpHillary Clinton