The Oklahoma Republican Party approved a resolution Saturday condemning and censuring Sen. James Lankford (R-Okla.) for his role as a chief negotiator in the Senate border security talks between Democrats and Republicans.
The resolution — a copy of which was posted on X, formerly Twitter — by state Sen. Dusty Deevers ® said, “Senator Lankford playing fast and loose with Democrats on our border policy not only disfranchises legal immigrants seeking citizenship but it also puts the safety and security of Americans in great danger.”
Senate negotiators have been working for weeks to negotiate a compromise on border and immigration policy that is meant to address the number of migrants who come across the U.S. border with Mexico.
Remember, the GOP have already openly announced the strategy of “pounding the table” with the border issue, while simultaneously refusing to actually do anything at all about it, because doing so “would give Biden a win.” Can’t have that. So now Republicans must complain about border security while refusing to do anything about border security, and just blaming Biden for all of it as if immigrants have never crossed the border until Biden got elected.
So why do they do this? Because it’s effective. They have conditioned their voting base to not only not care about solutions, but to actively not want them. Solutions to problems are government overreach, you know. They have conditioned their base that (a) Democrats are the cause of all their problems, (b) the Republican party is there solely to point out the “problems” that Democrats are supposedly causing, and © these problems can’t and shouldn’t be solved by the government because that would be government overreach. And when people complain about why nothing ever changes, the answer is to go back to (a) and start over.
Give a man a boogeyman to blame for all of his problems, and he’ll follow you anywhere.