Why am I not surprised

[luzribeiro]

Trump administration releases hard-line immigration principles, threatening deal on ‘dreamers’

This sounds pretty much like a Trump deal. Make one small good thing you should do anyway contingent on getting everything else you want, then make the other side struggle to get that one small good thing, so they don't realize how much you've gained in the other direction. Deflection, denial, projection, and lying are the tools of Trump's trade, and Democrats would do well to fight him, to not allow him to dictate nasty repressive terms to get the one small good thing.

Trump has to be getting desperate, he has to know that getting things from the House and Senate may get even harder after 2018, and his flailing attempts to get even Republicans to go along with his "ideas" will eventually convince even brainwashed Trump voters of his incompetence and lack of qualifications to be president. Not even Fox "News" can spin and fake up Trump's failures into "wins"... and Democrats must not hand him a victory for one small good thing, or they're giving him tools to defeat them in the next election. No wins for Trump, no "deals" which even Faust would pass up.

Only this cruel administration would use the lives of children escaping murderous violence and extreme poverty as a bargaining chip in DACA negotiations. "More detention spaces" for children indeed. Label children who truly are unaccompanied on their dangerous and horrific journey to a country that only purports to be welcoming to migrants, as "accompanied." Whisk them back to the brutal conditions they are fleeing. Is America truly such a heartless country? Can Americans not find a place in their wealthy country for a child in desperate need simply because there would be more brown people residing there?

Comments

[oportet]

What if things get easier for him after 2018? Shouldn't Democrats be a little worried about that likely possibility? They don't have momentum. Dreamers for a wall seems like a pretty good deal. Overconfidence got them into this predicament in the first place - I don't think staying overconfident will get them out of it.

[0rder]

I'll confess to being overwhelmed by a sense of weary futility on this issue. While I think there's a good chance the Republican caucus will implode on tax reform, on immigration reform, I don't see a meaningful break over the extraordinary harshness of the Trump wishlist, and DACA re-authorization may well provide all the political cover 8 or so Democratic senators need in order to sign onto almost the entire thing. White Americans just don't care about brown people. It's just expressing a common pathology.