I keep trying to grapple with Trump's appeal and I just don't get it. Now with mini rant.

[Dems to Win]

58. Robert Reich today: The Revolt of the Anxious Class

http://robertreich.org/post/135202830270

The anxious class feels vulnerable to forces over which they have no control. Terrible things happen for no reason.

Yet government can’t be counted on to protect them.

Safety nets are full of holes. Most people who lose their jobs don’t even qualify for unemployment insurance.

Government won’t protect their jobs from being outsourced to Asia or being taken by a worker here illegally.

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Where do you get the 'looking the other way' accusation against liberals? Is providing a path to legal status and prosecuting 'illegal employers', 'looking the other way'?

The federal government has looked the other way under Clinton, Bush, and Obama. That's how we've gotten to a point where people have been in the country for two decades without legal authorization.

Any discussion of deporting undocumented immigrants is met with great outrage from liberals. Without immigration reform, vigorous opposition to deportation equates to looking the other way from the exploitative system of undoc immigrants paired with unscrupulous employers.

Today, there are millions of fake Social Security numbers being used for employment, and the SS Administration knows where they are working, because the reports they get from employers have an employee name that does not match the name the SSA assigned to that number. Yet the federal government does nothing, and 9+ million undocumented people remain in the country indefinitely.

President Obama has increased labor law enforcement, but imho it's been a drop in the bucket compared to the scale of the problem. The proof is the large number of people still working here with fake SS numbers.

They seem to say, "I see brown people doing the work my father and grandfather used to do. Build a wall!"

Pretty sure they'd be upset if they saw whites speaking Polish at the job sites, while knowing the federal government is not enforcing the immigration laws.

Robert Reich again:

I’ve heard their complaints and cynicism, their conspiracy theories and their outrage.

Most are good people, not bigots or racists. They work hard and they have a strong sense of fairness.

But their world has been slowly coming apart. And they’re scared and fed up.

It's easy for smug liberals to call all objections to unauthorized immigration 'racism' and therefore not worth listening to. It helps Democrats lose elections.