This is a big population of severely disadvantaged people who gain nothing from GDP growth. They do matter.

https://www.counterpunch.org/2017/06/16/93450/

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/monkey-cage/wp/2017/06/0...

Regardless, whatever the problem is, their solution is always lowering taxes on corporations and rich people. Whether the economy is doing poorly or well, that is what they will propose.

It is unsurprising what has happened.

The travel ban made it clear that's not the case (it affected legal immigrants).

In fact, Bannon had spoken against legal immigration before the election, and continues to do so:

"Legal immigration is the real problem"

https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/2/2/14472404/st...

Second, there wouldn't be so many H1B applicants if there were other ways into the US.

There's far more going on that we are unaware of, be it malice or good intentions, thus it is absurd to believe that our leaders are man children. We are too far removed from primary sources to know the truth.

A serious question: what would the president have to do, within reason, for you to consider him petty, childish, or incompetent?

>videos of him pushing others aside for photo ops

Check it out. The Montenegro PM stepped on Trumps foot, both of them react to that.

Ask yourself, What other information have you received in a biased form?

(and where are you getting this foot information from, anyway?)

The White House denies it, so who knows. Either way, there are many example's of him acting like a child. The inauguration debate for example.

The only special election they should be disappointed about is georgia 6th. Many of the rest have been fairly encouraging, given that they have been competitive in red districts.

I am pretty sure those people exist. I apologize on behalf of America and ask that you not blame me. ;-)

I'd be more disappointed about SC-05, where it was a close finish with little resources dedicated. If some of the GA-06 millions had been spent there, it might've been a win.

I wouldn't be at all disappointed with the fact that both districts went Trump by 20 points, and were quite close less than a year later.