Well here’s a little something for your Sunday afternoon: 

I don’t think there’s any one single explanation for Donald Trump’s popularity among a subset of GOP primary voters, but clearly nativism and an ugly strain of nationalism is part of it. Here’s Trump’s new immigration plan, released today. Among other things, it states that the U.S. must force Mexico to pay for a wall along the border and that the nation must eliminate “birthright citizenship” (granting citizenship to babies born in the U.S. even if their parents are foreigners). The latter would presumably require amending the Fourteenth Amendment of the Constitution. 

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Coulter is very hopped up on the immigration topic and very pro-Donald. From her recent tweets

“Nothing else matters. Unless we stop 3rd worlders pouring in, bloc-voting 4 the Dems, conservatives lose EVERYTHING.”

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“These morons with their little position papers on how to replace Obamacare, deal with Iran and defund planned parenthood … too stupid to grasp that they’ll never be in a position to do any of that unless we stop foreigners from voting in our elections.”

“Without @realDonaldTrump’s immigration plan, it will be nothing but Obamas and Hillarys as president for the rest of our lives. #USAmatters”

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Here’s more on Trump and immigration from Dara Lind at Vox.

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