When Donald Trump won the 2016 presidential election, immigration was on the minds of millions of Americans. Trump single-handedly destroyed the old consensus of the Republican Party's political experts, who believed being soft on social matters and free-market-oriented on economics was the recipe for success.
Instead, he capitalized on the large cohort of voters whose anxieties about immigration were unrepresented among the major parties, each of which wanted open borders for various reasons. To the horror of the far Left and outrage of the NeverTrump Right, Trump somehow won.
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