Author: Daniel snow

[ad_1] You’ve seen the ICE raids, masked agents grabbing people who they think might be undocumented, sometimes only on the basis of skin color. “I’m from Brooklyn!” Or because they were speaking Spanish. How can this possibly be legal in the United States of America? “More fear.” “Terrorizing communities.” “170 U.S. citizens were detained by Homeland Security.” Well, it became legal just six weeks ago, when the Supreme Court gave ICE the green light to use racial profiling to decide who they suspect is undocumented. What made the Supreme Court’s decision so concerning wasn’t just how the court ruled, but…

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[ad_1] You’ve done a lot of work over the years on how different issue attitudes, different ideas have changed for the working class, for other social classes in the country. Give me the high level of that. What’s happened over the past 20 years in people’s views? Yeah, well, I mean, I think there’s a perception among at least a lot of progressives that the working class has gotten so conservative on cultural issues. But that’s not true. Working-class people have gotten more progressive on virtually everything over the last 20 or 30 years. There are some exceptions to that…

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