Midterm Optics Are Bad for Progressives

Townhall.com ^ | October 25, 2018 | Victor Davis Hanson

[Kaslin]

For progressives, the looming midterm elections apparently should not hinge on a booming economy, a near-record-low unemployment rate, a strong stock market and unprecedented energy production. Instead, progressives hope that race and gender questions overshadow pocketbook issues.

The media is fixated on another caravan of foreign nationals flowing toward the United States from Central America. More than 5,000 mostly Honduran migrants say they will cross through Mexico. Then they plan to crash the American border, enter the U.S. illegally, claim refugee status and demand asylum. Once inside the United States, the newcomers will count on a variety of ways to avoid deportation.

This gambit appears mysteriously timed to arrive right before the U.S. midterms -- apparently to create empathy and sway voters toward progressive candidates supporting a more relaxed immigration policy.

Open-borders advocates and progressives assume that if border-security officials are forced to detain the intruders and separate parents who broke the law from their children, it will make President Trump and Republican candidates appear cold-hearted and callous.

Earlier this year, a similar border melodrama became sensationalized in the media and almost certainly dropped Trump's approval ratings. But this time around, the optics may be different.

[goldstategop]

If you can’t argue the issues, pound a table and scream.

Or send yourself fake bombs as a distraction.

[2ndDivisionVet]

They look like military age men to me.

[gaijin]

Conservatives banned from Twitter.
Conservative shadow-banned from Facebook.
A violent antiTrump hater stealing a MAGA hat and throwing soda in the owner’s (a young kid) face.
GOP lawmakers screamed at in elevators.
Republicans hounded out of restaurants.
Christians harassed and sued by cake people.
Home addresses of GOP’ers doxxed by Capitol Hill staffers.
A roundhouse kick to face by a hair-dresser.
An Antifa sympathizer striking the head of a pro-Trump supporter with a bike lock.
A Bernie Sanders supporter shooting at GOP lawmakers and hitting one at a baseball game.
A dump truck used to mediate the derailing of a GOP train.
Ricin-laced letters.
False-flag letter-bomb campaign
Torching of Albany County GOP headquarters

[100%FEDUP]

That’s why they have the Media doing damage control for them!

[Paladin2]

Lock FineSwine up.

[Liz]

PASS THE WORD----EVERY SENATE DEMOCRAT CO-SPONSORED FEINSTEIN'S BILL
WHICH BANS THE ARREST OF ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS, "EVEN FOR SERIOUS CRIMES"

Democrat Sen Feinstein Promised That If Democrats Takeover, her Border Separation Bill,
W/ 46 Democratic And Two Independent Co-Sponsors, "Will Get Passed."

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The late, unlamented Senate Immigration "Reform" Bill Protected Crooked Latino Public Officials
holding US govt positions from prosecution for wrongdoing in elective and appointive office.

DC Gala--Ntl Assoc of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials
L-R--Sen. Robert Menendez (D-NJ)--indicted and skated;
Dr Salomon Melgen, VOXXI Chman (now incarcerated);
Rep Nancy Pelosi (D-CAL); San Francisco
J. Sanchez, US Under Secy of Commerce for Intl Trade,
Emilio Sanchez, Pres/CEO of VOXXI.
(Photo/Voxxi---Melgen's ethnic solidarity web site)

[oldtech]

Don’t understand why it is that the Democrats & the media can’t see these “border crossers” for what they really are......illegals.

[proud American in Canada]

Gotta love those peaceful libs.