{"id":4472,"date":"2018-06-21T15:38:06","date_gmt":"2018-06-21T15:38:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2018\/06\/21\/they-said-it-but-they-didnt-mean-it\/"},"modified":"2018-06-21T15:38:06","modified_gmt":"2018-06-21T15:38:06","slug":"they-said-it-but-they-didnt-mean-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2018\/06\/21\/they-said-it-but-they-didnt-mean-it\/","title":{"rendered":"They Said it But They Didn’t Mean it"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Did the Dems mentioned above change their view? It is rather more likely that they never meant what they said in the first place, but were simply saying what they thought was politically expedient at the time.  Trump forced them to show their true colors. He exposed them as unserious about solving the problem of the illegal invasion and at the same time so enraged them that they radicalized their position in blind reaction to the extent that they are in danger of losing a good percentage of their base.<\/span><\/p>\n

Andrew Sullivan, who is virulently anti-Trump, understands this<\/a> very well indeed:<\/span><\/p>\n

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Democrats in 2017, in general, tend to criticize the use of immigration enforcement, and tend to side with those accused of violating immigration law, as a broad matter of principle beyond opposing the particular actions of the administration \u2026 Democrats are no longer as willing to attack \u201cillegal immigration\u201d as a fundamental problem anymore.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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This is, to be blunt, political suicide. The Democrats\u2019 current position seems to be that the Dreamer parents who broke the law are near heroes, indistinguishable from the children they brought with them; and their rhetoric is very hard to distinguish, certainly for most swing voters, from a belief in open borders. In fact, the Democrats increasingly seem to suggest that any kind of distinction between citizens and noncitizens is somehow racist.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Did the Dems mentioned above change their view? It is rather more likely that they never meant what they said in the first place, but were simply saying what they thought was politically expedient at the time.  Trump forced them to show their true colors. He exposed them as unserious about solving the problem of the … Continue reading “They Said it But They Didn’t Mean it”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-immigration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4472","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4472"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4472\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}