……..Democratic politicians are being driven by a media and celebrity culture that has decided that what’s going on with ICE is the new, gigantic outrage of the day, and therefore everyone must speak out. They have decided this is their new civil rights moment.
The Democratic base is constantly in search of an animating principle, and the animating principle is supposed to be a pale knockoff of the civil rights movement of the 60s. They’ve done it with gay rights, transgenderism, and now with illegal immigration. “The jackbooted thugs, they’re enforcing laws that are discriminating against wide classes of people,” Democrats still argue.
They’re always looking for their chance to do a Selma bridge moment. The problem for them is that those moments are rare because — thank God in America — that sort of stuff has been outré for half a century.
In terms of generic public policy, every country has to enforce its border, and every country has to make sure that illegal immigrants are deported. There’s nothing new about that.
But Democrats, and particularly radical activist class Democrats, are always looking for their new moment to be involved in a civil rights movement. The minute they see anything even remotely resembling that moment, they go for it whole-scale.
…….In addition, we have the entire celebrity class, who, of course, have now been reanimated. They found their new cause.
One year ago, they were wearing Hamas pins at the Oscars. This year, presumably, it will all be about ICE.
……..My favorite thing about modern America is when people who have all the rights and privileges of being a modern American suggest that they are living in deep fear when they clearly are not. For God’s sake, he’s speaking into a microphone on camera.
You know what? People in totalitarian regimes don’t do that thing because they know what comes next — and it ain’t good.
Leftwing celebs, their political counterparts in office, the liberal media, and the paid rioters, scramble from one sensationalist controversy to the next. They went from the “Free Palestine” shit to the “No Kings” cringe, and now the squalling children are wailing and assaulting ICE agents for enforcing our country’s immigration laws.
Just wait a few days, they’ll latch on to something else.