{"id":2651091,"date":"2026-08-28T11:26:02","date_gmt":"2026-08-28T15:26:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/establishment-republicans-choose-their-need-for-approval-over-the-gop-base-on-amnesty-for-illegals\/"},"modified":"2026-08-28T11:43:26","modified_gmt":"2026-08-28T15:43:26","slug":"establishment-republicans-choose-their-need-for-approval-over-the-gop-base-on-amnesty-for-illegals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/establishment-republicans-choose-their-need-for-approval-over-the-gop-base-on-amnesty-for-illegals\/","title":{"rendered":"Establishment Republicans Choose Their Need for Approval Over the GOP Base on Amnesty for Illegals"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Festablishment-republicans-choose-their-need-for-approval-over-the-gop-base-on-amnesty-for-illegals%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2651091&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The article discusses the persistent and often perplexing stance of certain Republican lawmakers who support amnesty for illegal immigrants. The author suggests that <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >thes politicians exhibit behaviors linked<\/a> to psychological traits such as denialism, a need for approval from elites, and a desire to appease powerful interest groups like the Chamber of Commerce.Despite notable setbacks or opposition, these Republicans seem to repeatedly revisit the topic of amnesty, driven by delusions that they can eventually succeed or that the issue is less important than it appears.<\/p>\n<p>The piece highlights how figures like Donald Trump shifted the political landscape by making immigration reform a cornerstone of their campaigns,which gained widespread support. When Trump\u2019s influence waned or his approval ratings dropped, some politicians resumed advocating for amnesty, indicating a cyclical pattern rooted in cognitive biases and personal motivations rather than pragmatic politics.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/nd-coach-shuts-down-espn-for-making-victory-about-race\/\" title=\"ND Coach Shuts Down ESPN For Making Victory About Race\">article criticizes media outlets<\/a> like the Wall Street Journal for past advocacy of open borders, which they later retracted under pressure or after recognizing the political costs. The author also claims that some Republicans believe granting amnesty will translate into future votes from immigrant populations-a notion the author dismisses as unrealistic or delusional.<\/p>\n<p>the article portrays the pro-amnesty stance among some republicans as irrational and motivated by psychological flaws, ultimately warning that this behavior threatens their political base and national sovereignty.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><br \/>\n<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\"><br \/>\n<?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><html><body><\/p>\n<section> \t\t\t\t<script>console.log(\"ad slot (AC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC2)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC3)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC4)\")<\/script><\/p>\n<p>I am been baffled by the mentality of pro-amnesty Republicans who, however many times they are shut down, repeatedly come back for more after a short interval. It is as if they are triggered by a Tourette\u2019s tic that can only be suppressed momentarily before manifesting itself again.<\/p>\n<p>On many issues, Republicans have either conceded or put their preferences on extended hold. Sadly, one must acknowledge that gay marriage, the flat tax, privatizing Social Security, and abolishing the Department of Education may fall into this category.<\/p>\n<p>Yet there is a breed of Republican who can withdraw on those and other issues, but when it comes to amnesty for illegal aliens, they just cannot let it go.<\/p>\n<p>What is the psychology behind this?<\/p>\n<p>Amnesty Republicans typically suffer from two dark malign personality traits: an unsavory need for approval from elites and a desire for intimacy with the Chamber of Commerce. What else could explain forsaking a loving long-term relationship with the GOP base in favor of a Tinder date with the owner of a meat packing plant?<\/p>\n<p>What psychologists call \u201cDenialism\u201d also seems to be at work.<\/p>\n<p>Absent making categorical opposition to amnesty and illegal immigration the paramount issue in his first campaign, Donald J. Trump would not have gotten more than about 8 percent of the vote in the Iowa caucuses or New Hampshire primary. Without the Biden border debacle, he could not have risen from the political dead to win his second term.<\/p>\n<p>Yet the amnesty Republicans are in denial about the enduring primacy of Trump\u2019s signature issue. They seem to think that after they are swatted down on amnesty, they just need to wait a short time before beating the drum again.<\/p>\n<p>It is as if the Trump phenomenon never happened or was a passing flight of fancy, and as soon as there is the slightest sign of a chink in Trump\u2019s armor, it is time for amnesty again!<\/p>\n<p>After Trump\u2019s second victory, they piped down and shelved the issue, but as soon as the president\u2019s approval ratings ticked down in 2026, they began again, led by Ohio Governor Mike DeWine and various Congressional representatives. Newt Gingrich and Sean Hannity would have never dared to advocate amnesty on morning of Wednesday, November 6, 2024, but in 2026 they slithered off down into the amnesty hole.<\/p>\n<p>Similarly, after 911, a chastened Wall Street Journal editorial page, which had previously advocated a constitutional amendment providing that \u201cthere will be open borders,\u201d quietly turned tail, but it only lasted for so long.<\/p>\n<p>For example, editorial board member Dan Henniger recently gave a \u201cHit of the Week\u201d on the Journal\u2019s Fox show to the late Lindsey Graham for his efforts in the failed 2013 \u201cGang of Eight\u201d amnesty gambit. With all that he could have cited as an epitaph for Graham, he came up with that?<\/p>\n<p>The Journal also appears to be beset by the \u201csunk cost fallacy,\u201d a cognitive condition suffered by an individual who has devoted so much effort to an unsuccessful endeavor or cause that he sinks more resources into it, even when logic would dictate otherwise. Coming from the most extreme end of the amnesty crowd, the Journal poured many years into outright \u201copen borders\u201d advocacy, so it cannot cut its losses.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, amnesty Republicans usually harbor the belief that they will curry favor with recipients of amnesty and turn them into GOP voters, which would appear to be the product of either a manic episode per bipolar syndrome or delusions per schizophrenia.<\/p>\n<p>In the poker game of politics, the Democrats would say, \u201cI\u2019ll match you amnesty and raise you all manner of transfer payments and entitlements.\u201d Who do you think poor recent amnesty recipients will be voting for then?<\/p>\n<p>I have covered Tourette\u2019s syndrome, dependent personality disorder (the extreme need to please), denialism, sunk cost fallacy, bipolar disorder and schizophrenia as sources for the behavior of Republican officials who support amnesty \u2014 in its many forms, guises and euphemisms \u2014 for illegal aliens.<\/p>\n<p>It is a witch\u2019s brew of conditions, indeed.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><i><b>The views expressed in this opinion article are those of their author and are not necessarily either d or endorsed by the owners of this website. 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