A Reality Check for Progressives

Instapundit provides a link to a Kevin Drum article in Mother Jones, normally a liberal rag. Drum surprisingly writes good sense about reactions to the Paris attacks and admitting Syrian refugees to the U.S.

To the average person, it seems perfectly reasonable to be suspicious of admitting Syrian refugees to the country. We know that ISIS would like to attack the US. We know that ISIS probably has the wherewithal to infiltrate a few of its people into the flood of refugees. And most voters have no idea how easy it is to get past US screening. They probably figure it's pretty easy.

So to them it doesn't seem xenophobic or crazy to call for an end to accepting Syrian refugees. It seems like simple common sense. After all, things changed after Paris.

Mocking Republicans over this—as liberals spent much of yesterday doing on my Twitter stream—seems absurdly out of touch to a lot of people. (snip) It makes them wonder if Democrats seriously see no problem here. Do they care at all about national security? Are they really that detached from reality?

Hint: Yes, Democrats are that detached, No, they don't care. However, they do understand they can't admit those feelings.

Getting past U.S. screening will be ridiculously easy because the Assad government of Syria - on the U.S. sh*t list - won't cooperate with the FBI. ISIS can confiscate authentic passports of Syrians with zero extremist history and hand them to terrorists who look something like the photo. An afternoon of coaching and rehearsal should get most of them past screening.