My first thought was: So he’s going to raise our life expectancy by five or six years? Yes, broadly speaking, Europe has been having problems dealing with migrants, and immigration has become a hot political issue. But the anxiety driving MAGA isn’t driven by reality. It is, instead, driven by dystopian visions unrelated to real experience. That is, at this point, Republican political strategy depends largely on frightening voters who are personally doing relatively well, not just according to official statistics but also by their own accounts, by telling them that terrible things are happening to other people.

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Persons: Kristi Noem, MAGA, Donald Trump —, Biden, Noem, Trumpism, MAGA isn’t Organizations: Republican Locations: South Dakota, America, Europe, United States