… Does Trump doubling-down to placate his base mean that it is good policy or politics for the Left to do the same? The “Abolish ICE” rhetoric to protest Trump policies brings to mind another old saying, often attributed to the Rolling Stones’s Mick Jagger as well as to Navy SEALs: “Anything worth doing is worth overdoing.” Were they in favor of abolishing ICE during the Obama administration? Their beef should be with Trump and his administration’s policies, not with the career men and women employed to carry them out.
Public-opinion research is very clear that a majority of Americans do not support either Trump’s border wall or his administration’s policy of separating children from parents suspected of entering the country illegally. …
But the leap from opposition to a border wall and separating families all the way to eliminating the agency charged with immigration enforcement and many other unrelated missions is an enormous one that would likely leave most Americans behind. CONT.
Charlie Cook
Recent polls: Immigration