Sorry, I don’t recall ONE “Rockefeller Republican” who was for closing the border, fair trade, or expanding gun rights. Do you? Really?
Sorry, but you must have a very short memory. Until a few years ago, even most Democrats were in favor of closing the border, fair trade, and expanding gun rights.
Hell, Trump could easily be running on the Democratic Party Platform of 1996.
"[W]e must remain a nation of laws. We cannot tolerate illegal immigration and we must stop it. For years ... Washington talked tough but failed to act .... [O]ur borders might as well not have existed. The border was under-patrolled, and what patrols there were, were under-equipped. Drugs flowed freely. Illegal immigration was rampant. Criminal immigrants, deported after committing crimes in America, returned the very next day to commit crimes again."
Sound familiar?