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Is the Outrage Farming Working? – HotAir

Democrats have been searching for some issue with which they could get political purchase, given how adrift they have been and how their popularity has plummeted. They needed something…anything…around which they could rally their party, get their ground troops mobilized, and most importantly, get some politically powerful group or another to come to their defense. 





Ironically, that issue is the kinda, sorta, maybe/maybe not botched deportation of a wife-beating MS-13 member who likely is a human trafficker. And, in the most bizarre twist, their strategy is working with one demographic that matters politically: well-educated upper-middle-class center and center-left voters. 

This is a group of voters who are relatively reliable for Democrats, so Trump’s immigration strategy isn’t driving a new bunch of people to the Democrats, but a significant number…

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