Posted on 01/28/2018 7:13:26 PM PST by SamAdams76
If you have any worry that President Trump is selling out his base, relax. Notice that Tom Cotton and Sonny Perdue are running point on this negotiation.
1. Notice the timing of this out-of-the-blue offer by President Trump. Caught the left by surprise, while Schumer and company were still licking their wounds. Classic negotiation tactic, save your opponent before they slit their own throat and they will thank you.
2. While 800K is the number of DACA ‘kids’ we have been discussing, 1.8 million is the actual number who are eligible in this classification. By using the higher number, President Trump appears conciliatory and magnanimous, offering the left a way to save face. Brilliant strategy. Don’t beat your opponent so badly they cannot sign the contract.
3. We ALL know the entire 1.8 million will not register, they never do.
AND they will not be eligible to vote.
AND they have to come out of the shadow to be completely documented.
AND they have to live an extraordinary CLEAN life, no crime, for 10-12 years, otherwise – deported and IN-eligible.
3. By limiting ‘kids’ only, NOT parents, President Trump has utterly destroyed the left’s narrative that the left is the only one who is compassionate. Trump also forces the left to drop their mask of “the DACA kids came here through no fault of their own”, which means the parents ARE AT FAULT.
In other words, it’s obvious, the left wants the parents as well because they want the votes.
Motives of the left are revealed.
4. Understand, we are close to a point where the DACA ‘kids’ will champion Trump’s proposal (for pure self-interest) and protest the left (who stands in the way).
It’s hilarious.
Only President Trump could magically accomplish such a turn-around.
5. By shutting down 6/8 ways for immigration, President Trump cuts total immigration initially to Clinton levels, and eventually to Kennedy levels. We will go from 1 million a year to less than 250K a year.
Thank you President Trump.
This helps all American workers.
6. The left is again boxed in as they have bet everything on support for DACA but the left will not get the deal without border wall funding, which Trump pegged at 25 Billion dollars.
We get our wall or there is no deal.
7. By supporting chain migration, the left can now be painted as “PRO-TERRORIST” for political purposes. Remember, almost every poll indicates the public is opposed to chain migration by 65-80%.
Dems are on the wrong side of chain migration.
8. By ending VISA lottery, President Trump, again, is with the VAST majority of voters. Merit based systems make sense. The Dems are standing on quicksand by defending a lottery system.
9. Again, the White House/Trump proposal is brilliant in asking for 25 billion for THE WALL AND for port security, border patrol, etc. In this way, the Dems can save face and claim they are funding port security. Of course, they are funding the wall as well. AND the 25billion trust fund ensures the wall will be built, and funds will not be taken away later.
10. If President Trump can ACTUALLY resolve immigration, something that has eluded politicians for 3 decades, he will be lauded as a great President. He will have accomplished the impossible.
11. President Trump also removes ‘immigration’ as a talking point for the 2018 election and beyond. This is incredible and do not underestimate the effect.
Now that the proposal is out:
Of course, the hard right collapses and over-reacts immediately. Thank you. We needed your outrage to prove or make the appearance that Trump was capitulating. You performed beautifully.
This makes Trump appear as he is the rational compromiser, coming to the middle to seek a solution.
Notice how the left has reacted. Pelosi lost her mind. Other Dem leaders (and I use the term loosely), are foaming at the mouth, emotional, irrational, screaming, at the “UNFAIRNESS” of this deal, when Trump appears calm, magnanimous, and quite reasonable.
One of the MOST effective Alinsky tactics is to divide a group and turn them on each other.
President Trump has turned the DACA ‘kids’ on the rest of the illegal immigrants AND the Dem party.
It’s brilliant.
If you are thinking this is the final deal, don’t be ridiculous.
It was a shot across the bow, from President Trump.
If the President, or Tom Cotton/Sonny Perdue does not like something, they only have to walk away and let the clock run out.
And make no mistake, if the clock runs out on DACA, and the ‘kids’ are to be deported, the DEMS will be blamed for not taking this deal.
President Trump has the Democrats by the proverbial ‘short hairs’.
The Art of the Deal.
Ping NOT Q
I haven’t been keeping up on DACA at all and I liked this anlaysis of what appears to be Trump’s winning strategy. First sentence from the linked article,”If you have any worry that President Trump is selling out his base, relax. Notice that Tom Cotton and Sonny Perdue are running point on this negotiation.”
Bookmarked
Good article. Resident Cassandras would do well to read it.
I also haven’t really followed DACA. But I did see one thread which indicated the Left was talking about 800,000 people but was actually seeking wording which would allow 3,000,000 people. Trump’s “counter offer” of 1.8M appears to be twice as “compassionate” as the Democrats but really gives them half of what they were really expecting. And, as noted, the Democrats will get no voters at all.
“Cassandra” is a favorite epithet of the GOPe.
Nothing wrong with vigilant citizenship.
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1.8 won’t register because when they do, cash under the table stops and their income will be subject to taxes.
Bump
The left plays Tiddlywinks while DJT plays 4-D Chess.
THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU!!! I read this on FB and couldn’t remember where or by whom. I’m bookmarking it now.
Steven Tucker is right... brilliant moves on President Trump’s part...
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The best part is we finally have a street brawler POTUS who will keep pounding until the Dems cry for mama.
That statement assumes she had one to begin with.
A solution to immigration has not eluded politicians, as the article claims. The politicians know what the problem is and what the American people want them to do about it--they just do not want to take those steps. The Democrats have way too much invested in illegal voting, to the point where it is doubtful if they can win without it. The Republicans cave every time a Democrats calls them racist, sexist, etc. (the usual litany). So nothing gets done, by design.
I'm certainly looking forward to Trump finally doing something about this problem.
This dude was reading my mind
I think he means David Purdue who is one of our GA senators and Sonny Purdue’s cousin.
Details and policy wonkiness aside, Trump has taken away one of the Dems top issues. They’ve never wanted to fix immigration, they love it just the way things are and they love to use it as a campaign issue. As soon as they say “amnesty” half the right goes ballistic and then they say “See, they’re racists just like we’ve been saying”.
Trump broke their toy. Now the Dems are the ones who will be blamed if they don’t help fix it. Even the dreamers are starting to see that Trump’s offering them what no one else ever has. It’s false to assume they will automatically vote for Democrats - why should they?
I am very impressed.
And I didn't think my admiration for The Donald could get any higher. We did well, electing him. Very well.
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