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Who would have thought that funding an organization whose members summarily execute American citizens and then get away with it would turn out to be unpopular?
by mindslight 6mo ago
Who would have thought that funding an organization whose members summarily execute American citizens and then get away with it would turn out to be unpopular?
While we certainly have a law and order problem with regards to illegal immigration, we also have a law and order problem with regards to people tasked with enforcing the law. And the latter is much more important to sort out first.
- jfengel 6mo agoPolitically, it's easier for people to get angry about long lines in airports than it is about people occasionally getting murdered. If Republicans could have successfully pinned the blame for the shutdown on Democrats, they would have caved weeks ago. They couldn't, but not because people agreed with Democrats about ICE. Rather, it's because they don't like it when politicians tie things together. Republicans looked as if they were punishing ordinary flyers to pursue an unrelated political battle. They'd rather they pass the TSA bill, then go back to fighting separately about ICE, even if they really want ICE as well.
- mindslight 6mo agoI've got to wonder if the dynamic is something more like when the media focuses people on ICE, people fit enough of the ICE-propaganda in their head to assuage the cognitive dissonance about supporting an organization that summarily executes Americans. Whereas when the media focuses people on the TSA, that's a whole different set of TSA-propaganda to fit, supporting the idea that TSA itself is a worthy endeavor. But when the issues are tied together, people can't fit both sets of rationalizations in their heads at the same time, so interest in supporting ICE drops.