This article, first published in the Wall Street Journal, offers a credible assessment of the diminishing support among many backers of U.S. president Donald Trump for his administration’s aggressive workplace raids and deportations of undocumented immigrants that intensified in early June, causing a social explosion in Los Angeles.
Let me know when they start doing something about it.
Were the LA protests not something? Was the Portland protest that breached a holding facility not something?
People are taking action against the Trump administration. Not enough people, and not enough action, but three weeks ago, immigration was his strongest polling policy issue, and now he’s underwater in polling on it.
People who recognized the threat when the Trump Campaign handed out their ‘Mass Deportations Now’ signs at the RNC have forced the mushy middle to understand (in their bones, not just intellectually) what that meant all along.