Blog Credo

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

Monday, July 14, 2025

Turn That Dial

 As Krugman notes, Trump's (Stephen  Miller's) mass deportation program is becoming less and less popular by the day. He suggests that images of paramilitary raids on Home Depot parking lots repels many Americans and I think that's true.

But - as with the Epstein stuff - the problem with MAGA and even "normie" Republicans is that what they believe is just utter bullshit. There is no army of MS-13 members terrorizing American cities.

You can't achieve a goal based on fantasy.

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