{"id":21361,"date":"2019-04-12T16:30:45","date_gmt":"2019-04-12T20:30:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/live-immigrationreform.pantheonsite.io\/?p=21361"},"modified":"2019-04-12T16:42:54","modified_gmt":"2019-04-12T20:42:54","slug":"the-dnc-declares-war-on-immigration-enforcement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2019\/04\/12\/the-dnc-declares-war-on-immigration-enforcement\/","title":{"rendered":"The DNC Declares War on Immigration Enforcement"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I am on the Democratic National Committee\u2019s (DNC) press\nrelease distribution list. Yesterday,\nI noted a release<\/a> that blamed efforts to enforce immigration laws for inconveniences\nto citizens and legitimate border-crossers, while making no mention of the\nborder chaos that necessitates stronger enforcement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Today, I got another one. This one was not from the DNC, but\nrather the \u201cDNC War Room.\u201d The content of the release is far less important\nthan the self-described site of origin: The\nDNC War Room<\/em><\/a>. Admittedly, terms\nlike \u201cwar\u201d and \u201cwar rooms\u201d have become trivialized. Athletes talk about \u201cgoing\nto war\u201d with the other team. Professional sports teams don\u2019t just set up rooms\nwhere coaches, scouts, and executives decide on which players to draft; they\nhave \u201cwar rooms<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Political parties are in the business of trying to win\nelections, and that entails high stakes efforts to convince voters that the\nother guys\u2019 policies are bad and ours are better. But the difference between\npolitics and war is that politics is supposed to be a contest of ideas. The\nother party is not the enemy against whom war is waged; it is the opposition\nwhich, at the end of the day and regardless of the outcome, is still part of\nus. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In functional democracies (like ours used to be), one party\nhas sought to prevail over the other by persuading voters that they can do a\nbetter job. In war, the aim is to destroy the enemy, by almost any means\nnecessary. The objective is not to persuade, but rather to impose an outcome.\nIn healthy democracies the defeated party accepts the verdict of the voters,\nregroups and gets ready to battle it out in the next election. They do not\nreconstitute themselves as \u201cthe resistance,\u201d and work to undermine the legitimacy\nof the party in power.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tellingly, the DNC is not at war with the oligarchs who are\nlargely responsible for the human misery that is driving people to leave Central\nAmerica at a rate of 100,000 a month. They are not at war with despots and\ngenocidal regimes around the world. They are not at war with foreign powers\nthat are stealing the intellectual property which is the bedrock of our 21st<\/sup>\ncentury economy. Rather, they are at war with the president for trying to\ncontrol chaotic immigration, while they block commonsense legislation that\nmight stem the flow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nor should the Republicans feel too smug about all this.\nThere is little reason to doubt that had Hillary Clinton won the election, that\nthe RNC would not be huddled in a bunker somewhere on Capitol Hill waging their\nown righteous war of resistance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I am on the Democratic National Committee\u2019s (DNC) press release distribution list. Yesterday, I noted a release that blamed efforts to enforce immigration laws for inconveniences to citizens and legitimate border-crossers, while making no mention of the border chaos that necessitates stronger enforcement. Today, I got another one. This one was not from the DNC,<\/p>\n

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