So Trump kinda sorta changed his immigration detention policy. He will stop separating families, but his current plan to detain them together is illegal. His plan will not reunite the children who have already been ripped from their families. Trump assumed being a hardass on immigrant children would resonate with his base and rally them ahead of the midterms. Instead, he reaped a whirlwind of condemnation even within the margins of his own party.
Meanwhile even a shitty immigration bill appears to be dying in the House, because nothing in punitive enough for the Tea Party and their "economic anxiety." This has been both a shitshow and an unnecessary exercise in arbitrary cruelty towards children.
This entire episode in the Trump Admininstration in a nutshell.
First, there is the performative cruelty masquerading as strength. "Strength" in Trumpistan is really just bullying behavior intended to slake the bloodlust of his ardent supporters. "Triggering libtards" is the most important aspect of policy in this White House. If you make Rachel Maddow cry, you've done your job. There is no expertise, there is no strategy, there is only the theater of cruelty.
This was entirely created by Trump and the Sessions/Miller/Kelly Axis of Evil inside the West Wing. But it escaped their control, and it turns out that the theater of cruelty doesn't play well outside the 27% of Deplorables.
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