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On Wednesday, two GOP Senators, with help from the White House, rolled out a new legal immigration proposal that put emphasis on certain merits to receive a green card. And as the Media Research Center reported later that night, the liberal media was up in arms. But CNN’s Fareed Zakaria took a different approach during his show Global Public Square are Sunday. According to him, the Democratic Party were the ones “out of touch” with the feelings of many Americans.
He blamed it on the party’s ability to demonize those that simply disagree with their dogma. He recalled the story Pennsylvania Governor Robert Casey, who wanted to add a pro-life stance to the party’s platform in 1992. “He fully understood that the motion would be voted down. But the Democratic Party refused to permit him even to air his views, so great was his heresy,” Zakaria explained as an example.
“That sent a strong signal to working-class Catholic and evangelical voters that if they did not fall in line on this one issue they were no longer welcome in the party,” read Zakaria, from a book by Mark Lilla.
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. melanie.hunter
