Out of curiousity, how does one meet in the middle on amnesty? Allow one foot in, but not the other? Illegals are either allowed in or they’re not.
I have this perpetual conversation with a liberal friend. He keeps calling for Washington to compromise. I keep telling him that, for compromise to occur, there has to be an overlap of goals.
If I want to get to point A on path 1 and you want to get to point A by path 2, compromise is possible. But freedom and socialism carry no such overlap: I want to get to point A, you want to get to point -A. For situations like that, there can be no compromise.
Thus, the only areas left where politicians compromise is on pork: you vote for mine, I'll vote for yours. It is the worst of times.