Well, it is estimated that 17 million people have crossed our border and entered our country illegally. They are “illegals”. Thing is, the term has become politically incorrect because it constantly calls attention to the fact that they are, in fact, illegal.
There’s two questions here - one is whether it’s racist or not to call a person illegal. Certainly people with a more conservative position have long argued that it is not.
The other is whether the average Democrat used to agree that yes, it is. I do not think it’s a misinterpretation to say they did. It’s on the lawn signs.
Because he’s not an idiot, and knew she’d be heckling him on this exact point, so she could score points by making him look both old and indifferent to the murder of this person.
But too bad for her, he played the Uno reverse card and made her look like the idiot.
This is how the game is played now, and it will be until the howler monkey caucus is soundly defeated at the polls.
I still don’t happen to think that Biden is a doddering old fool.
In an election year, I allow for the possibility that this kind of statement from Biden might be calculated to neutralize some of the Republicans’ current ‘advantage’ on the immigration issue.
His next sentence was “But how many thousands of people being killed by illegals?”, which he didn’t follow up on. Not sure what he was going for, there. Sarcasm, thinking it is an obvious hyperbole?
I don’t think they’d necessarily disagree with any part of the sign, but I also don’t think that the “average Democrat” is gung ho enough about Black Lives Matter or No Human Is Illegal to put up a lawn sign declaring so.
I think that’s an actual gaffe. I think he meant to contrast this with the thousands murdered by Proper Americans With Papers And Everything.
Because that’s the real contrast here. Empty Greene is freaking out over this one, rare murder, while flat-out refusing to do anything to even slow down the flood of mass shootings that happen almost every day now.
Also, someone like my MIL is a lifelong democrat mostly by inertia, and while she had heard about BLM, if I told all “no human being is illegal” she would probably just be confused.
I think there are a lot more democrats like her than like posters on this board or progressives.