Krystal Ball

These are actually the core things to demand.

And one thing we really want to focus on is like, and by the way, even if you are sort of a, you know, more to the left of center, you want a much larger and more generous welfare state.

you should almost be more concerned about demanding those things.

I mean, it makes some sense.

The libertarians are crazy, but they have an internal coherence, right?

Libertarians will say like, we want open borders and we want no welfare state that provides anything to anybody.

Like, well, that's a terrible idea, but like, that sounds awful.

But also like, at least like you're putting your money where your mouth is sort of.

And

And I think what's been a huge problem for the left of center is to say, no, no, we are going to uphold all of these things that we must give to everybody.

But we absolutely reject this idea that we are going to, you know, impose anything that's going to maintain the kind of solidarity and bonds of genuine citizenship.

And that's where then in turn you just see trust start to break down.

You see both at the community level, trust in the government.

You see people feel like, why am I even paying taxes?

What is this going to?

Rio Grande Valley Hispanics voting for Trump.

And then you see it is a really important point that a lot of people who have immigrated to this country and have become citizens the right way are often those who get this more than anybody else.

and are especially frustrated by people who are not doing those things.

And so, you know, I think it's really important to think about this as really at the root of a lot of the problems we're having here, but also to divorce it from what has been the fight about immigration for so long, which is like, well, either you're pro-immigration, and that is the sort of

we care about everybody's rights or you're anti-immigration and that's somehow xenophobic or racist or whatever else, either you're pro-immigration