Interpret improvements as you like. For me it’s any large scale reforms or legislative packages designed to improve the country for all or see to the material interests of the majority without overly benefiting the elite.
Any big consumer protection, environmental, infrastructure, or other legislation from Clinton onwards that materially improved the lives of all?
Obamacare and the medicaid expansion comes to my mind. It has obviously improved people’s lives but considering how broken the healthcare system remains, and that it was written by the insurance industry to undermine single-payer, it seems to me a mitigated win at best.
Gay marriage and marijuana legalisation but that was the courts and the states although i’m sure the federal government could’ve stood in the way had they chosen to.
I’ve only live here since the 2010s so that’s all I can think of.
Most illegal immigration occurs from visa over stayers, not crossing the southern border. A wall won’t help.
The worse problem is that they also sneak in illegal drugs like fetanyl through the border. A wall can definitely help here
Why would they do that when China can ship it in large quantities in containers? Like I know some drugs come that way but it’s not even the major source.
Smuggling is done with drones now not people
In that case we just need to build a wall that reaches the stratosphere. What do you think?
It also should extend underground into the Earth’s core to prevent tunneling.
Legalization would help more than anything. Full legalization of all drugs is the only drug war outcome compatible with conservative values such as personal responsibility and individual autonomy.