Thucydides, I like much of what you have written here but think you are slightly ahead of events. I would have preferred that you not engage in ad hominem (can that last apply to Stephen Miller?) attacks. I also think many of the lower courts are still fighting vigorously for the rule of law and the continuation of the Constitutional right to habeus corpus. I would ask you to look at the wonderful columns from Joyce Vance and others. I agree with your sense of urgency but not that we can only resort to massive public resistance — though that too is needed.
" Trump officials are claiming a 95% drop in illegal border crossings. They’re talking about the safest streets, lowest crime, most secure homeland in modern memory. So again, what is the emergency? If we’re truly the safest we’ve ever been, with the lowest crime and strongest border enforcement in decades, why are we being told the only solution is to impose the most draconian measures in American history?"
But then there is no good reason to expect logical and consistency from this administration.
Thanks for pointing out this big flaw--one of a great many--in their thinking!
Thucydides, I like much of what you have written here but think you are slightly ahead of events. I would have preferred that you not engage in ad hominem (can that last apply to Stephen Miller?) attacks. I also think many of the lower courts are still fighting vigorously for the rule of law and the continuation of the Constitutional right to habeus corpus. I would ask you to look at the wonderful columns from Joyce Vance and others. I agree with your sense of urgency but not that we can only resort to massive public resistance — though that too is needed.
You made a great observation:
" Trump officials are claiming a 95% drop in illegal border crossings. They’re talking about the safest streets, lowest crime, most secure homeland in modern memory. So again, what is the emergency? If we’re truly the safest we’ve ever been, with the lowest crime and strongest border enforcement in decades, why are we being told the only solution is to impose the most draconian measures in American history?"
But then there is no good reason to expect logical and consistency from this administration.
Thanks for pointing out this big flaw--one of a great many--in their thinking!
I love all of what you have written here.
Written columns will not slow down the erosion of our inalienable rights. Note inALIENable.
Public resistance is needed now. Not some la-di-da time and place.