Conservatives Losing Friends, Alienating People

By Matthew Yglesias
Tom Edsall reports that "Key leaders in the rapidly growing Latino evangelical community" mad as hell about conservative unwillingness to embrace a path to citizenship for illegal immigrants residing in the United States. And, of course, this political dynamic only gets worse for Republicans if some form of amnesty does pass at some point (possibly in the very near future) since that would expand the number of Hispanic voters and one would expect amnest-ied Latinos to be extremely enthusiastic about the politicians who helped them out.

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