Will The Republican Border Security Bait-And-Switch Backfire?
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🗓️ 7 February 2024
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
This week on Politix, Matt and Brian discuss:
* How we reached the point where Republicans wrung a bunch of immigration-policy concessions out of Democrats, then reneged on their own deal.
* What was actually in the deal and why?
* Would the provisions of the bill have actually succeeded at the nominal goal of creating more order and better asylum screening at the border?
Then, paid subscribers hear a more open ended conversation and debate over whether the concessions Democrats offered were wise politically and substantively, whether they needed to engage this issue on Republican terms in the first place, and whether the GOP’s turn to sabotage will allow Democrats to seize and hold the center on immigration in a way that lastingly hurts Donald Trump. Plus, Matt gratuitously slags Tracy Chapman, forcing Brian to take a brave stand on behalf of Good Music.
Further reading:
* Matt argues that bureaucratic obstacles to implementing a working border policy, like ineffective polygraph screening for would-be agents, should be done away with—and would make implementing a border deal before the election very hard.
* Brian on how Biden can win the ensuing infowars over GOP border sabotage, but only if he browbeats mainstream news into covering Trump and the GOP’s dirty dealing forthrightly.
* The Democrats should fully embrace both halves of the old border-security-for-Republicans/legalization-for-Democrats consensus.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Fast Car, the seminal 1988 hit by Tracy Chapman. |
| 0:04.4 | Yes, which has now become a country hit with a white guy singing it. |
| 0:09.2 | I loved the politics of that moment. I thought that was great and like that's what America |
| 0:14.7 | is all about. But I Ih heh heh. |
| 0:27.0 | Hey everyone, you're listening to a free preview of the politics podcast. |
| 0:31.0 | In this episode, Matt and I will discuss all things immigration. So first, how we |
| 0:36.0 | reached this latest impasse over border security in Congress, then what Democrats |
| 0:42.0 | agreed to before Republicans pulled their latest bait and switch. |
| 0:47.0 | Paid subscribers will get to hear a more open-ended conversation about whether the deal Democrats struck was good on its own terms, and how well or poorly Democrats have played the politics of immigration in general. |
| 1:00.0 | So we hope you enjoy the conversation, and if you like what you're hearing and want to listen to the whole episode, |
| 1:04.8 | you can upgrade to becoming a paid subscriber at politics.FM. |
| 1:17.3 | Hello and welcome to politics the podcast I'm Brian Boiler and I'm Matthew Iglesias this week the GOP's big border security rat fuck. |
| 1:23.2 | Is it safe to call it that, I think? |
| 1:25.0 | I think it's. |
| 1:25.9 | It's hard to say. |
| 1:27.0 | Is there maybe there will be a third act? |
| 1:28.9 | Who has fucked whom is the question? But it came to an end. which deal and then Republicans have decided I think to filibuster their own immigration |
| 1:43.9 | bill so we're going to talk about what the deal is or was is it a deal that |
| 1:49.1 | Democrats should have struck first I want to do a real quick piece of housekeeping. We saw your notes about |
| 1:56.1 | our mic levels in the last episode and I just wanted to take the L on that |
| 2:03.7 | real quickly I screwed up and my local audio didn't get recorded so we had to use the group |
| 2:07.1 | audio and our levels weren't really well matched but this time I clicked the |
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