The left is starting to jump the shark on its child-migrant 'crisis'

[endicom]

American Thinker
Monica Showalter
June 20, 2018

For the left, it's finally springtime. After months in the political wilderness, followed by the crushed hopes for the great blue wave, they are finally getting a grip on an issue they can pin on President Trump: Family separations among detained illegal border crossers. They're going wild with this issue and the press is running stories about it nonstop, complete with crying children to tug at the heartstrings. But there are signs it's getting to be too much for them, driving them to overplay their hand.

The child migrant crisis they have drummed up, with media cameras shamelessly exploiting the faces of crying children (they blank out unconsenting children's faces otherwise) separated from their parents, at first glance seems to be the magic bullet they've been looking for.

Many Republicans, for instance, are caving on the real issue, which is border enforcement, hastily offering up new legislation that incentivizes more illegal border crossing, for one. Many are condemning the migrant separations and blaming Trump, too. It's a panicked response to polls showing public approval numbers dropping, and never mind that the issue itself is problematic, not quite what the left's narrative says it is, premised on laws enacted well before President Trump took office and enforced the same way by past presidents. Only Trump however is getting the blame for now saturation-coverage situation. But instead of fighting back, as Trump does, the Republicans are caving, and this emboldens the left more. Yes, indeed, this is what passes for springtime for the Trump-hating left.

More... https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2018/06/the_left_is_starting_to_jump_the_shark_with_its_childmigrant_crisis.html

[Sanguine]

I would like to think so, but I bet this issue has a lot of mileage left.

[Free Vulcan]

They always do this. They take a fake crisis and hype it ad nauseum until they are frothing and ranting 'Kill ze Republicans, kill zem all! Viva la revolucion!' Then wash, rinse, repeat.

They are pavolovian. They can't help themselves. Marxists do what they will do.

[rangerrebew]

June 20, 2018
The left is starting to jump the shark on its child-migrant 'crisis'
By Monica Showalter

For the left, it's finally springtime. After months in the political wilderness, followed by the crushed hopes for the great blue wave, they are finally getting a grip on an issue they can pin on President Trump: Family separations among detained illegal border crossers. They're going wild with this issue and the press is running stories about it nonstop, complete with crying children to tug at the heartstrings. But there are signs it's getting to be too much for them, driving them to overplay their hand.

The child migrant crisis they have drummed up, with media cameras shamelessly exploiting the faces of crying children (they blank out unconsenting children's faces otherwise) separated from their parents, at first glance seems to be the magic bullet they've been looking for.

Read more: https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2018/06/the_left_is_starting_to_jump_the_shark_with_its_childmigrant_crisis.html#ixzz5IymA4PtH
 

[rangerrebew]

I wonder when the border issue will be blamed by the left on Putin ordering Trump to take kids from their parents?  You know its coming.

[Free Vulcan]

Threads merged.

[dfwgator]

They always do this. They take a fake crisis and hype it ad nauseum until they are frothing and ranting 'Kill ze Republicans, kill zem all! Viva la revolucion!' Then wash, rinse, repeat.

They are pavolovian. They can't help themselves. Marxists do what they will do.

And the Republicans are like the Social Democrats in 1933 who decided to go along and vote for Hitler's "Enabling Act".