My feeling is that we are fighting mainly over symbolism here. We’ve had poorly vetted immigrants coming in for years. Delaying the “ban”, which only applies to a few Muslim countries, isn’t going to make a practical difference in terms of the terrorism risk. One way or another Trump is going to win here, because he’s well within his rights to do what he’s doing. Everyone knows this, including non-crazy leftists. It just may not be as quick as we’d like. Trump and Bannon are planting a flag — establishing the notion that it is good and proper for the country to have firm control over who comes here — and that will happen whether the ban goes into effect now or a month or two from now.
I agree 100%, less if there is classified and credible information we don’t know about related to ISIS activity with refugee flows. I could see ISIS believe Trump is going to close the gates; so they move in before he gets a chance to. Trump may have been told this on day one by his natl security team. They may have captured 5 people in the first so many days of his admin, no one knows those facts and generally they wouldn’t share it bc it causes fear and alarm within the populace.
In politics it is often best to create scenarios where the opponent’s position is painfully obvious so they can’t muddy the water and appear moderate when they are not. Making the left protest and call for open immigration from countries Obama designated “of concern” is actually pretty smart.