Democrats’ ICE hysteria hides their deepest midterm fears

The more violence, invective and sheer craziness the left can instill — storming church services, ramming ICE vehicles, taking over the streets, boasting of armed resistance — the more they believe voters will blame not them, the instigators, but Trump, the target of their insurrectionary madness. Democrats grant that voters sincerely like Trump’s secure border, the new trade agreements that correct past asymmetries, a rearming NATO, a defanged Iran, and the end to Maduro’s Venezuelan thugocracy — but not his messy art-of-the-deal means to achieve those desirable ends. And without the smokescreen of the ICE psychodramas, a lot of Democrat fears — the vast Somali fraud in Minnesota, the even greater welfare scandals emerging in California, and the antics and verbiage of hard-left luminaries like Gov.

Author: Victor Davis Hanson

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