Formula: if you don’t agree with policy X, you hate children.
I have to say, leaving character, that it is gratifying to see how quickly and efficiently conservatives are beginning to snap to attention and go on the offensive when the Left attacks us. We have been the targets of ridiculous attacks for decades, but because we are thoughtful and have tended to assume the same of the people attacking us, we have tended to grant that, while we differ in our beliefs, we are certainly not perfect, and are willing to submit to constructive criticism. The problem, of course, is that it is purely, and by design, DESTRUCTIVE criticism intended to marginalize us, dehumanize us, and push away from power.
That we should have a border should not be controversial. It never was. It is a very old concept. The nation of Mexico understands it quite well. Their policy more or less seems to be that if you are just passing through, they don’t care, but if you want to LIVE in Mexico, and come from somewhere else in Central America, they will put you in jail for years.
And that laws which are not enforced are irrelevant in modifying people’s behavior was equally uncontroversial. This is why we have police, a court system, a prison system.
It seems to be true that Obama made publicly acceptable a great deal of nonsense. But it also seems to be true that Trump is making publicly acceptable calling bullshit on that nonsense.
I will say again that this cannot but have the effect of pealing Democrats away from the plantation–the work farm, where they labor for free supporting people who use and abuse them and tell them it is for their own good.
This is the main reason, I think, the rhetoric is so awful, so overblown, so ludicrously out of proportion to the actual issues. I read one Democrat is comparing Trump to a dumpster fire. How? Why? Employment is up tremendously, North Korea has likely ended its notions of a nuclear war, the border is being protected better, Trump is working on improving our trade deals, pedophiles are being busted by the thousands, etc.
That is the opposite of a disaster, EXCEPT for Democrat ambitions. But how long can they tell such blatant lies before people in large numbers start waking up? We are a stupid, complacent, ignorant nation, but I don’t think we are yet THAT stupid, complacent and ignorant that the Democrats can keep more than a 5th of our population forever.