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The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.

H.L. Mencken

Tuesday, September 5, 2017

Ignoramus

A number of reports suggest that Trump really doesn't know the extent and possible ramification of his actions.  As I suggested the other day, perhaps Trump blunders into a scenario where he forces Congress to do it job.  This will require Congressional Republican leaders to cut deals with Democrats in order to pass what is essentially the Dream Act.  Republicans have boxed themselves in by complaining about Obama's executive overreach in creating DACA.  But DACA covered their own shameful inaction.

Now, Trump has forced them to either pass the Dream Act with Democratic votes or watch communities being torn apart.  You want to turn Texas and Arizona blue?  Kill DACA and fail to pass the Dream Act.

So all we need now is competence in Congress.

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