Ruben Gallego

And of course, that never happened.

Right.

And what did Biden do correctly?

Starting in June, July, he came down with a lot of these changes and you started seeing border crossings dropping dramatically.

Again, but it was like the extremes that were kind of forming the policy positions of of of the White House at that point.

The same thing happens, though, to Republicans.

Even though the moderate position is, yes, border enforcement, but yes, I want some kind of immigration reform and I want some visas.

The extremes of the Republican Party in terms of the policymaking side come from the Numbers USA guys, all these other people that believe in a zero-sum game when it comes to immigration.

And they also create this world that informs, you know, Donald Trump.

And that's why Donald Trump is losing now because he went out of where the norm, normie American is, right?

The normie American wants people that are here in this country illegally to have serious crimes.

to be deported.

They want that person that is working at the taco shop that they really like or the coffee shop they really like, they want that person to be given an opportunity to stay here legally.

You could question whether citizenship here or there.

Pretty big consensus that if you have a son or daughter that's an American citizen, you should have a right to stay and become a citizen.

Pretty big consensus if you're a dreamer, the same thing.

But the people that are the most extreme are on the Republican side are the ones that are in the policymaking world.

Lastly,

The reason this all comes to a head is because the filibuster has created an environment where the extreme will get to dominate that.

Because if you can't get to 60, then you end up losing the battle.