Donald Trump's signature campaign issue was immigration. He fired up his supporters, creating images of ravening hordes of Mexican invaders raping our women and killing our children. He never lets us forget that those countries "don't send us the best they send us their worst". Be afraid. They're destroying America according to Donald Trump.
What happens if there is no immigration crisis? What happens if border apprehensions are at a 46 year LOW? What does a man like Trump do? He creates a crisis as a vehicle to implement some pretty horrific policies, to beat the nationalist drums, and unite us in fear that "the other" is going to take over decent hardworking white Americans.
And the horrible thing is - he is pretty damn successful at it.
Exactly. Of course, you'd expect from a reality-tv-president exactly what he's done, which is to create a spectacle and cast himself right at the center of it - reality, data, science, along with common decency be damned.
You didn't really think they'd fall for that "Cato" link, eh? For had you quoted a think tank with a just slightly leftist hue, they'd be screaming "partisan bias" from the top of their lungs. Now that you quoted a staunchly rightarded source, they were smelling the trap from a mile away - even though otherwise everything Cato would be gospel. They're smart like that.
Here's the list of characters who would find any and all attempts at disabusing them of their misconceptions and prejudices "funny":
Funny x 15
Grampa Murked U
The Breeze
Cellblock2429
Old Yeller
Intolerant
Odium
eagle1462010
depotoo
OKTexas
easyt65
jknowgood
bear513
blastoff
TNHarley
Claudette
They have a great lot of equally ineducable peers, staunchly resistant to any penetration by reality. Given the current xenophobic frenzy, there's probably just one thing one might find encouraging. That would be the electorate's notoriously minuscule attention span. The precondition is that Trump would cease reminding them of the immigration "crisis" (of his own creation), and that would happen only if a unified resistance by Congress were to demonstrate to the orange clown that continued brutalization of immigrants would be a losing issue for him.
Fat chance, no? After all, the Goobers in Congress probably could never be convinced they're done politically exploiting refugees, and the orange Clown was reportedly privately bawling about his EO keeping families together.
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