Writing for CNN Politics, Ron Brownstein opines that Republicans are shifting from opposing illegal immigration to opposing nearly all immigration. While Brownstein doesn’t say so, this is happening at a time when Democrats have already shifted from supporting only legal immigration to supporting all immigration.
The crazies who want to disband ICE are Democrats, an increasingly influential segment thereof. Both sides are becoming more extreme, but it asks too much to expect left-leaning CNN to report this mirror-image symmetry. Some of the statistics Brownstein reports are suspect, other surveys have found Americans support Trump-style immigration policy.
The middle ground politically is more and more an empty set, a place few occupy. As a society we are building up to something historic, I wish I knew what (and when) that cataclysm will be.
