Normally, when a policy becomes deeply unpopular a politician will weigh its appeal to his base vs. the overall political cost and will usually find some way to pull back or seem to. But Trump's immigration policy is no longer primarily about immigration, if it ever was -- it's about power and physical force and creating opportunities for him to use more physical force to seize more power. The chaos ICE is causing is a plus -- it will give him the excuse he's wanted for years to use the Insurrection Act to subdue blue cities. I keep thinking about how vastly the ICE + CPB presence outnumbers the actual police forces of the Twin Cities -- by about three to one. We see horror, he sees a test case.
One sentence explains Trump's domestic & foreign policy: the strong do what they can, the weak suffer what they must. And let's remember how that turned out.
If either of two ICE's killings had occurred in Australia there would have been a (legally) compulsory coronial inquest, no matter how innocent looking the killings. Our coroners are judges and the killers would have to testify under oath. Coroner's can't impose authority but my goodness they say in plain English when deaths are unnecessary and and unavoidable.
Furthermore politicians responsible would limit themselves to an expression of regret at the death and say they little extra because they wouldn't want to prejudice the coming investigation.
My goodness things are different in the Backwards States of America under the Trump administration.
Much as I would like to join your guarded optimism, today in the cold Somerville snow the reality looks grim. Our philosophers are interpreting the world in various ways . . .
Normally, when a policy becomes deeply unpopular a politician will weigh its appeal to his base vs. the overall political cost and will usually find some way to pull back or seem to. But Trump's immigration policy is no longer primarily about immigration, if it ever was -- it's about power and physical force and creating opportunities for him to use more physical force to seize more power. The chaos ICE is causing is a plus -- it will give him the excuse he's wanted for years to use the Insurrection Act to subdue blue cities. I keep thinking about how vastly the ICE + CPB presence outnumbers the actual police forces of the Twin Cities -- by about three to one. We see horror, he sees a test case.
One sentence explains Trump's domestic & foreign policy: the strong do what they can, the weak suffer what they must. And let's remember how that turned out.
If either of two ICE's killings had occurred in Australia there would have been a (legally) compulsory coronial inquest, no matter how innocent looking the killings. Our coroners are judges and the killers would have to testify under oath. Coroner's can't impose authority but my goodness they say in plain English when deaths are unnecessary and and unavoidable.
Furthermore politicians responsible would limit themselves to an expression of regret at the death and say they little extra because they wouldn't want to prejudice the coming investigation.
My goodness things are different in the Backwards States of America under the Trump administration.
Much as I would like to join your guarded optimism, today in the cold Somerville snow the reality looks grim. Our philosophers are interpreting the world in various ways . . .