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yeah ik but he's not "doing the popular thing", he's usually pulling off some trick to pretend he's doing the thing, and many believe him because the Dems and institutions let them down and some supporters genuinely treat MAGA like a cult.
As for the deportation plans that one may be a point where he's possibly doing something in line with a wide part of american opinion. Xenophobia is a strong agitator, some will unironically rather hunger if they see some neighbors they don't like deported. He will still replace high paying jobs with H1B immigrants, as this creates pressure on domestic working class, but possibly change some low-payed immigrant workers for US-born ones. That's in line with the bigger US-right wing strategy of getting more people into jobs that don't require academic education, as they want to put less emphasis on public schools and universities and more on home schooling and religious education (this does actually change the meta-politics in favor of the right and arguably has pro-natalist effects according to some).
To achieve that they will probably try to devalue manual work through reducing workers rights to the point where domestic labor is not much more expansive then foreign one, however the job will be as precarious (or even more) than for the immigrant workers before