Shorter @LizMair: 10 ways to beat Trump? Do anything but the obvious, easy move (steal his issue: immigration) thebea.st/1EIHeVn

Medicare buy-in (for 50 or older) seems like a good pick for Trump. B. Clinton idea-polls v-well if I remember right slate.com/articles/news_…

Immig are 20-30% of labor force in some lo-wage/lo-raise occupations. You’d thnk that’d merit @Neil_Irwin/NYT discuss dailycaller.com/2015/09/04/nyt…

Whoops, NYT, Brookings Unwittingly Show How Immigr… elderstatement.com/2015/09/whoops…

This @JoshuaGreen Trump-signed-his-death-warrant piece more persuasive than I’d hoped or expected. Still disagree bloom.bg/1UuBJvv

Bush/Clinton “dynastic duo” a false symmetry at this point. ¡Jeb! has been sent to the minors, no? wpo.st/2v_Z0

Frederick Douglass/Booker T. Washington/Chicago Defender all saying commonsense non-PC things abt immg & labor market wpo.st/PU_Z0

Labor/civil rights leader A. Philip Randolph argued the restrictive 1924 immigration act wasn’t restrictive enough! wpo.st/PU_Z0

“There is little doubt that immigration depresses the employment and wages of black men.” wpo.st/PU_Z0

This @BruceBartlett piece way better than needed to make its point. Lots of info on potential Black/Latino cleavage wpo.st/PU_Z0

Dem’s worst (or close to worst) fear is Trump’s trump card wpo.st/vT_Z0

i.e. prepare for anti-Trump neg ads drawing from rich mine of oppo twitter.com/DavidMDrucker/…

CATO arg. that Soc Sec/Medicare shld be counted as “welfare” seems bogus. Both arguably work-tested. Not like TANF twitter.com/ByronYork/stat…

Good points. But can’t decide who/how many 2 admit until get control of border-why wall/e-Verify/visa track are crux twitter.com/ByronYork/stat…

.@Neil_Irwin: Serious ?-Why isn’t immigration a big enough possible factor in labor supply slack for NYT to confront (refute, or confirm)?

Jeb! offering “special VIP experience” in NY to top bundlers. wpo.st/mAJZ0

Jeb! seems to be at the can’t-do-anything-right stage of campaign. Worried that next stage in cycle is the comeback. twitter.com/elisefoley/sta…

Don’t forget big @EricCantor/Jeb! endorsement tour scheduled for tomorrow. Is it still on? Live coverage?

.@politico identifies key Baudrillardist support for Trump in CA. More at @POLITICOPro #augustissupposedtobeover politico.com/story/2015/09/…

TRUMP HATERS FOR TRUMP! “Pollsters don’t know how many of these voters are out there”–because there are 3 of them? twitter.com/PrimeNewYork/s…

“No one on the right has argued in favor” of open borders? Hello? commentarymagazine.com/2015/09/01/the… via @Commentary

Ah, but throw in Social Security privatization … twitter.com/fredbauerblog/…

Free metaphor here for the taking! Not “anti-immigrant.” But need to go on immigration diet … twitter.com/MarkSKrikorian…

All coming back to me! !slate.com/articles/news_… Bush retreated to Pozen plan (w/ privitization fig leaf) B4 giving up twitter.com/daveweigel/sta…

Never thought of Kasich as a corporatist, but that is the basic pitch of don’t-rock-boat corporatism, no? @TPCarney twitter.com/daveweigel/sta…