This is also echoed by declining support for democracy. As democratic accessibility widened, support for it (esp among white Americans) declined. Same thing happened with support for public goods in the mid-twentieth century. It’s the same spirit of self-mutilation.

Isn’t that what many are saying in relation to immigrants? We aren’t honest enough about how cruel immigration enforcement makes the protection citizenship purportedly affords legible for some. It’s why Pretti & Good shifted the mood. It revealed the inherent vulnerability of citizens too.