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Abbreviated Pundit Roundup: No one knows what happens next [1]
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Date: 2025-06-18
Washington Post:
Overall, 42 percent of Americans oppose the budget bill “changing tax, spending and Medicaid policies” that narrowly passed in May by the Republican-controlled U.S. House of Representatives, compared with 23 percent of Americans who support the bill, and 34 percent who say they have no opinion.
Whereas a lefty Joe Rogan is a dumb idea, thinking about ways to reach “the unaware” (or “opt out voter” or whatever you call them this week) is not. See the NYC mayoral thread below, e.g.
Most remarkable in this new KFF poll: Republican-leaning voters who don't identify with the MAGA movement oppose the One Big Beautiful Bill 2-to-1, 66% to 33%. pic.twitter.com/tJvZrpqUjW
Greg Sargent/TNR:
Trump Erupts in Crazed Hard-Right Rant as MAGA Fury Takes Darker Turn
As President Trump endorses a vile, extreme concept called “remigration,” a writer who closely tracks Trumpism explains how lawless violence and outright sadism have become central to MAGA politics.
Will Sommer: Thanks for having me.
Sargent: Let’s start with Trump’s rant. Trump claimed Biden and Governor “Newscum,” meaning Governor Gavin Newsom, flooded America with 21 million illegal aliens, which is an invented figure. Then Trump said this, “All of them have to go home, as do countless other Illegals and Criminals, who will turn us into a bankrupt Third World Nation. America was invaded and occupied. I am reversing the Invasion. It’s called Remigration.” Will, this is seriously hardcore white nationalist rhetoric, but what’s remigration? Can you tell us?
Sommer: Yeah, remigration is a concept from the European far right that, to be honest, until a few weeks ago, I wasn’t familiar with either. But basically, in the European conception of it, it’s this idea of they’re looking around and they’re saying, OK, we’re going to send these people who are often maybe refugees or people from nonwhite countries who have immigrated to our countries back to their countries. And I think the key here—the thing to understand—is these are not just people who are on temporary refugee status. They’re talking about people who were born in those countries who are not white, people who are otherwise completely legal citizens of those countries, and they’re talking about sending them back to whatever their imagined previous homeland was. So the idea that Trump is picking up this language, I think, is very ominous, as you said.
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