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Opinion | Abolishing ICE is a popular idea Democrats should embrace
Jason Johnson: If Democrats don’t seize this moment, then they shouldn’t call themselves an opposition party.
If you truly want to stretch your thinking and open your mind about how the gate-keeping consensus machine of your media masters works then this is a pretty good article.
First it is an opinion piece that takes an extreme position. This for those of you that try to understand Trump is called...."The Big ASK"......
Every Democratic candidate in 2026, from dog catcher to state senate to Congress, should make abolishing Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE, a part of their platform.
No reform, no paring back, no redeploy or reevaluate, just abolish it outright. Who needs immigration enforcement right?
Don't worry just like with DEFUND THE POLICE, they'll later declare the slogan wasn't the real policy. Remind yourself of that later when they are losing badly and trying to stop the bleeding.
Masked ICE agents, who've been emboldened by President Donald Trump, have been rampaging through the streets of the United States: snatching people — including U.S. citizens — and harassing whole communities. And now we've recoiled in horror at the sight of ICE agent Jonathan Ross killing Minneapolis mother Renee Nicole Good. Her killing represents a seminal moment in American politics, and if Democrats can't seize this moment politically and morally, then they shouldn't even call themselves an opposition party.
The narrative here is a hilariously bad take. The officer now has documented injuries. However if you don't agree to their narrative on it, then you can't be in the party.
The biggest political swings during midterm elections happen when there is an obvious bad guy or at least a clear message on where voters should focus their anger. From Ken Starr's witch hunt against President Bill Clinton to President George W. Bush's "Mission Accomplished" stunt in Iraq to the 2010 "shellacking" that followed President Barack Obama's poor rollout of the Affordable Care Act, voters are often driven by anger at a particular issue and the president responsible for it.
The BIG RATIONALE... or why should you do what sounds completely batshit insane? Well we are going to hit a homerun but we can't hit it unless we go big and extreme.
A recent poll from The Economist/YouGov conducted between Jan. 9 and Jan. 12 shows 46% of Americans support abolishing ICE — not reforming ICE, not improving ICE but actually abolishing ICE. To put that in context: More Americans want to abolish ICE than want to abolish the IRS, and the IRS has a 120-year head start on making Americans angry. A full 52% of Americans in a Jan. 7 YouGov poll said ICE is too forceful, and in a Marist College poll in June, 54% said ICE has gone "too far" in deportation actions. Most of those polls were conducted before Ross pulled out a cell phone camera to his fatal encounter with Good.
This is clearly a push poll but that is sort of the point. You don't need to be right, you just need to pretend you are popular and they are pretending that zero immigration enforcement is now super popular. It's like saying you get to be the mean girl because you're so popular and of course you are so popular because... you're the mean girl. It is crazy and circular reasoning.
It gets worse but I don't want to quote the entire piece. Lot's of hearsay and "everyone knows" along with "reports from unnamed sources" that are just more gossip.
If you ever want to take off the crazy glasses and see the world this article, what it demands and the pretend expertise and false popularity claims to support it would be a good start.