Matt Walshes of the Past

Matt Walshes of the past were completely right about the Hart-Celler Act, Reagan’s amnesty, and every amnesty in between and after. So I’m not sure what point this dude is trying to make.

People often forget that in order to argue productively against somebody’s position, it first makes sense to find out what that position is. This is a standard problem in the debates between the left and the right. The right is very familiar with the left’s position because it’s the official one, transmitted through every public institution for decades. People on the Left, and I was one of them until roughly 2016, are utterly unfamiliar with the narratives of the Right because it’s necessary to go digging in order actually to find them. I was stunned when I actually discovered what it is that right-wingers believe. It bore no resemblance to what I had been told by the left that the right believed.

I highly recommend to the well-meaning people on the left, who are the absolute majority, because these are good, kind, well-meaning people, not to assume that you know. Ask questions, have conversations, and you will discover things that you were never told even existed.

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