You're assuming that it's malice, when it can be interpreted as incompetence. Incompetence in not figuring out the long term consequences of campaign-time acti

You're assuming that it's malice, when it can be interpreted as incompetence. Incompetence in not figuring out the long term consequences of campaign-time actions. So you campaign with hatred against immigrants because it's cheap. You campaign about how they use the dimnishing services. You campaing on cutting benefits to pander to "fiscal conservatives" and business that would like lower costs. You open immigration to pander to business wanting cheaper workforce. In isolation, with exception of first, none of them are much about malice and all can seem logical for the "goal of winning is the most important thing". Even the first is more malice from pandering to whatever emotion gets you direct results, without necessarily thinking anything about actually being malicious towards immigrants. Taken as a whole, looking at the whole system, it's a clusterfuck.