A newspaper owned by Rupert Murdoch delivered a sharp warning to President Donald Trump after a high-profile Republican loss.

In a new editorial, The Wall Street Journal warned Trump that a hardline immigration strategy promoted by top aide Stephen Miller is fueling voter backlash.

It comes after a Trump-endorsed candidate for the Texas state senate lost to a Democrat over the weekend.

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  • the_crotch@sh.itjust.works
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    We didn’t bounce back from that. Obama renewed or expanded on the worst of bush’s policies for another 8 years. We ratcheted hard to the right. Trump is a symptom of the illness we caught in 2001.

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      The illness predates 2001. 9/11 was a result of Post WW2 foreign policy, remember! The US is an imperialist nation, fascism is imperialism turned inwards. This was inevitable all the way back to the nation’s founding. The destiny was truly manifested.

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      I don’t know if I fully agree. After 9/11, the conservative movement was attempting to change the consensus(Evil brown foreigners are coming to kill you and your family). The fact that a black man won the Presidency not once, but twice speaks to a failure to meaningfully change it.

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        A black man who authorized more drone strikes on black and brown people than any other. Obama did a lot of fascist shit. Liberals really struggle to accept that fact because of dumb tribalism.

        The other commenter had it right, I’m afraid.