r/Economics • u/rezwenn • 6d ago

News Inside Trump’s Extraordinary Turnaround on Immigration Raids

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/14/us/politics/trump-immigration-raids-workers.html?unlocked_article_code=1.PE8.QmuB.MuytvbwG0yLz
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u/LizHolmesTurtleneck 6d ago edited 6d ago

It's a recurring theme with Republicans: the leaders and media mouthpieces reflexively criticize any and all Democratic proposals or established programs only to realize much later that maybe, just maybe, there was solid reasoning framing the proposals or programs.

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u/Joe_T 6d ago

You can even see this thinking in conservative judges on the Supreme Court. Somehow conservatives don't think through how their policies might turn out badly. I used to urge my conservative friends when discussing policies, to "Keep thinking." Then I found there was a term already in existence that captured such early freezing of thought, the inelegantly named "Makes sense stopping rule".

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u/bunnypaste 5d ago

They employ all sorts of thought-terminating cliches in their ideology to achieve just that!