Conservative pundits revived the narrative almost immediately, illustrating the centrality of xenophobia to their coverage

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      Think about their target demo, though. These people likely have no idea that election outcomes don’t take effect immediately. Democrats have not even been sworn in, but I bet the average Faux watcher has no idea how that works…but they’ll eat up that donnie is still fighting the super terrible Biden economy (lol), nearly 2 years later.

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        Sure, but there was an election they wanted to win recently, and I do not think they can keep up migrant caravan fever for two years without people becoming fatigued? So the timing seems weird.

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          That’s a good point. No idea. Maybe it’s a test run to see how much of an impact they think they can have on throwing the 2028 election.

          I could easily see the conservatives trying to do A/B testing to see how they can peel off people to vote R. You saw them freaking out about how they lost white people. Constantly talking about “men in women’s sports” didn’t work out quite the way they thought it would, so maybe they are going back to the “open borders!!!111” narrative to see what that does.