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> "Moreover, foreign mindsets are durable over generation"

Right, and most countries are very conservative compared to the US, in particular many of the countries that the average H1B holder is from. India, for example. That means Republican voters. The entire premise is flawed fearmongering.

>>esseph+(OP)
Anglo culture is distinctive both in its liberalism and its conservatism. My Bangladeshi family are well to the right of American republicans when it comes to say tattoos or divorce, but they don’t care about limited government or legal proceduralism.

I don’t have to fear monger. The cake is already baked. David Shor estimates that Trump tied or narrowly won foreign-born voters. Mass immigration didn’t kill the GOP, but it changed what kind of conservative party could assemble a winning coalition. And it looks like more like Trump (or Bolsonaro or Modi) and less like Mitt Romney or George H.W. Bush. Hope Obama was worth it!

>>rayine+iI
> Hope Obama was worth it!

This country just cannot get over a black man being president.

The day he was elected the first time, the statement echoed in the small diner I was in a table over was "I can't believe he won, he's not one of us."

That's the day I realized how fucked this place is.