Donald Trump’s ongoing purge of the Department of Homeland Security marks another milestone in his transformation of the GOP into an exclusionary party defined by its hostility to immigration in particular and demographic change in general. …
Trump-style views on immigration and race dominate among both the party’s elected officials and its electoral coalition. …
Recent polling on both specific policy choices and broader assessments of America’s changing demography capture the extent to which both the blue- and white-collar wings of the GOP have coalesced around insular views. CONT.
Ronald Brownstein, The Atlantic