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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    9 hours ago

    Some of us remember what it was like after 9/11…

    If you think this is a cult that’s never happened before, you just don’t remember what it was like back then. They didn’t just have Republicans, they had 99% of the country.

    If we can bounce back from that, we can bounce back from this.

    Like, not saying shit isn’t terrible right now, it is.

    But c’mon, be realistic. Even the racism and bigotry was worse after 9/11

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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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      Just to add to your point, there’s a documentary from around 04 or so called Jesus camp I believe where they honest to the gods prostrate themselves to a cardboard cutout of Bush. It’s surreal and just made me want to kill the adults in it, if you want to watch a commentary on it The Bible Reloaded did a video on it years ago, also Jake and Hannah (went by Hugo at the time) are both still chill.

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      I was younger but also not from the US so i’ve might have missed some on what was happening inside the USA at that time but i don’t doubt it was a real shit show back then

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        8 hours ago

        It was bad and everywhere.

        Like, right now America is like 20-35% Maga, after 9/11 it was literally 99% of Americans that were cool with anything Dick Cheney wanted. Absolutely zero accountability and a blank check against any citizen who wasn’t fully behind the government.

        Hell, I wore a “bad cop, no doughnut” shirt to highschool the year after 9/11, and got sent home for being unpatriotic. Even though no one could explain how that wasn’t patriotic or why it would be an issue even if it was.

        We were invading countries left and right and killing an insane amount of civilians in other countries.

        The reason trump seems much worse right now, is because he doesn’t have that level of support. That’s why he’s trying so hard to convince people we’re under attack. He wants a 9/11 or 10/7 sort of event so he can get that 9/11 level of support. Then shit is gonna get real fucking bad.

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          He don’t need the support he got fear and is own army in Ice ( and part of the US army )that wait just a word from him to start mass killing american he consider against him that why i thought it’s seem worst now but yet again i’m not in the US so i’m sure i don’t see or hear everything that’s happening ( trusted source are hard to find )