No, I fully grasp the demographic problem posed by failure to control the border. Ideally, I’d like them all to be gone - especially the little anchor babies.
But it doesn’t help our cause at all to give the left horrible optics like Trump deporting kids, and luckily he’s smart enough to avoid that.
Regardless of what we would like to happen - we have to accept the reality that American voters have a soft spot and the left knows how to take advantage of it. If we walk right into their traps every time then we get zero percent of what we want.
If we avoid the obvious traps then at least we can get some part of what we want.
I really think people need to watch that video of the guy getting dragged off the plane and consider the nearly universal public condemnation to it.
Now picture that being little kids being dragged out of their homes by police. Millions of them. Are you kidding me? You think any politician who supported that would ever win an election again?
Let the little kids stay and we are cooked.
I don’t care about the visuals. Our side never makes its case to the people. And we are never going to win over more than roughly half the voters anyway. The opposition is going to accuse us of terrible things no matter what we do.
Our side, like you, too often just assumes that the backlash of doing what’s right would kill our cause—and so we need to just roll over.
Again and again and again.