I don't think so. I believe the vast majority of the people don't care at all and flip channels while the minority play shallow political games, exaggerate the issues, and look for opportunities to display their sad team spirits.
Evening MSgt, while your description of the Democrats is spot on, there are a LOT of people who are fed up with our feckless immigration practices. Things like the immigration lottery, the practice of capture and release where illegals are captured and given an immigration hearing date and released. Then over 90% of them don't show up for their hearings. They are fed up with those who overstay their visas and our government seems to have trouble tracking their whereabouts to deport them. Folks are fed up with it.
Just a few hours ago it was reported Edwin Jackson, Indianapolis Colts linebacker, was killed by an illegal immigrant from Guatemala who had been deported TWICE was driving a vehicle under the influence and killed a 26 year old pro ball player and his Uber driver. Folks are tired of these stories and shaking their head in disgust over the fecklessness.
Folks on a local level are sick and tired of their school systems being burden by having to provide for the special needs for the children of illegals who need interpreters, special aides, and counsellors etc. These professionals don't come cheap. All the while school districts struggle to find the funds to repair current school buildings and meeting the needs to build new ones. We in Ohio like most in the country pay for funding our school systems through property taxes. So every American who owns a home watches their property taxes increase in part to pay for it all. But the extra money they end up paying out ends up costing their own families in denying them.
You remember during the Obama administration when we had that exodus of millions of children from South America countries pouring through our borders without parents? Those kids were placed in holding areas and then Obama had them shipped all over the country. I live in a school district that was effected by that encounter. I also watched my real estate taxes soar after that too. I live in a burb of Columbus Ohio. The median income for this area is above the national average. We have good schools and a low crime rate. I have never minded paying taxes if it benefitted my community. But what I do take issue with is being forced to pay for those who are here illegally depriving the kids in my community who were born here with the things they are deserving.
My point is this, politics are local. They always have been. It doesn't matter how a political party wants to spin something nationally, those local individuals effected by feckless policies originating in Washington will vote accordingly.
Same thing with the tax cuts. The Dem leadership called the tax reform passed by the Republicans on a partisan vote, Armageddon, crumbs to the least among us yada yada....
But locally it is playing out quite differently. Folks found less in taxes taken out of their paycheck. Locals saw job opportunities open up in a local factory to engineers.
