One of the most popular courses at my college was called "Earth, Moon and Planets" (or more popularly, Earth, Moon and Everybody). It was an introductory course to the creation of the universe and it ended with an examination of how the human brain evolved. At the base of the brain, over the spine is the "Lizard Brain." It's responsible for basic fight or flight mechanisms. See something, do something. Lizards aren't real big on long term planning. They react to stimuli.
Trump - and by extension the GOP - is closing the argument for the midterm elections with a massive blast of fear. Migrants are the main ooga booga, but he's also warning about the standard Republican bugaboos: Nancy Pelosi, George Soros and so on. This is because the Republican policy agenda has run out of juice. The tax cuts aren't working, because the real issue is stagnant wages, and that would require government action to fix.
Ed Burmila is a Cassandra. His argument that Democratic control of the House and/or Senate will lead to more violence by aggrieved white Boomer who are mainlining Trump's racist diatribes is hard to discount. Yet, as former Republican Max Boot points out, the boil has to be lanced. The poison has to be drained.
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