Why Democrats are staying silent about the migrant caravan
By Michael Goodwin
October 30, 2018 | 10:28pm | Updated
Back in June, Washington’s new zero-tolerance policy on the southern border was creating a firestorm. Parents caught crossing illegally were separated from their children, and heartbreaking photos of crying toddlers forced President Trump to call a time-out.
I wrote then that the policy was basically right, but being right wasn’t always enough. This was one of those times because the “image-driven stampede of public opinion†made rational debate impossible and threatened to hand Democrats a huge election victory in November.
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