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Donald Trump's overarching narrative for the debate was that Joe Biden has diminished U.S. power by opening the border and allowing millions of "Illegal immigrants" released "From prisons, jails and mental institutions" to come into the country to "Take our jobs," overwhelm our health care and Social Security systems, and rape and kill us.

Rather than pointing out Trump's utter lack of concern for people's well-being, Biden's rebuttal fell into the trap of trying to respond to Trump's tirades, allowing the former president to control the agenda and tone of the debate.

Trump used this as an opportunity to point out how little progress has been made under Biden and that Biden helped drive these disparities through his embrace of the "Superpredator" myth in the 1990s.

While many in the Biden administration and its key constituencies favor dialing back criminalization, they feel that it is politically impossible to state that clearly and openly, leaving the president to quietly support some good programs, while publicly leaning into a police-centered crime control strategy that will never be able to compete with Trump's undiluted authoritarianism.

Biden's weak policies and incoherent responses during the debate may give us another four years of Trump and his drive to turn the U.S. into a despotic kleptocracy.

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[-] Varyk@sh.itjust.works 37 points 2 days ago

Such an ignorant, lazy take.

How the heck are they complaining about biden's take on immigration when he increased the border control budget so much despite Republican protests against border control?

What happened is the opposite of what this article is talking about.

"Biden's weak policies and incoherent responses during the debate may give us another four years of Trump"

No, the election May give us another 4 years of trump.

It's an election.

Biden has very strong immigration policies, this article doesn't know what it's talking about.

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