Trump Hysteria

For the past week or two the nation has been in the grip of a new round of Trump hysteria. It began with the G7 conference when the Canadian Prime Minister Trudeau did an about face from what he'd said to President Trump and attacked Trump over trade. The Left bemoaned Trump not getting along with the other G7 leaders (conveniently forgetting that Germany's Merkel decided to postpone her retirement specifically to oppose Trump. How do you get along with that?)  Then people complained about the summit with North Korean's Kim. It was disrespectful to have US flags side-by-side with the NK flag or Trump was too friendly with a despot (from the same people who complained when Trump insulted Kim last year) or that Trump must have made a bad deal because Trump known nothing about high-stakes negotiation (see The Art of the Deal).

Then things really went into overdrive when AG Sessions announced a zero-tolerance policy on illegal immigrants. That meant an end to the catch-and-release policy on illegal immigrants with children. A combination of policies and court decisions said that it was cruel to put children in the same facilities as adults so they were put in special child-dentition facilities until they could be placed with someone within three weeks.

Outrage over this started slow but caught on quickly. Samantha Bea lashed out at Ivonka Trump for sharing a picture of herself with her child. Similar outrage was shown any time anyone connected with the administration was shown with their child. "How can you be so insensitive as to show your child when children are being ripped from their parent's arms?"

Pictures were shared of the harsh conditions. The initial pictures were from 2014 and all of the facilities used were opened under the Obama administration. None of that mattered.

The national news media picked up the story, labeling it a "crisis" then an "emergency".

A photographer took a short video of a child crying after her mother set her down so ICE agents could search her. It became the symbol of children being ripped from their parents. Mever mind that she was only crying because she was set down, she was not separated from her mother, the mother was not a refugee - she was just following her sisters in search of a better job, and the mother had left three other children behind. The picture was still the symbol of children ripped from their parents.

As the hysteria grew so did the comparisons. George Takei claimed it was worse than the Japanese internment under FDR (overlooking that his family was imprisoned for being the wrong ethnicity while children of illegal immigrants are taken away because their parents broke the law). Others insisted that this was the Holocaust all over again with space blankets being substituted for gas chambers. No one seemed to give a damn for the hardships and danger that the parents put their children through while going through Mexico.

After President Trump signed an executive order to keep families together the left totally lost their minds. With no specific policy to protest they began attacking members of the administration. Suddenly it was unacceptable for members of the administration to eat in a restaurant. Previously, when people were harassed by restaurant staff, the owners apologized. Now they celebrate it.

I could name other things but you get the idea.

I don't think all of this hysteria is really about immigration policy. I think it's the realization that Trump is not going anywhere. The Inspector General's report on the Clinton email investigation showed that the top agents in the FBI were very biased against Trump. They even ignored new evidence in the Clinton investigation in order to pursue the investigation into non-existent  Russian collusion.

The Russia investigation has been the left's last hope for getting rid of Trump and it's evaporating.

Even worse, the left has been counting on a Blue Wave to retake Congress with the possibility of impeaching Trump. All hopes of a Blue Wave are gone. The Democrats might win a small majority in the House but it will be a struggle to keep the Republicans from picking up a seat or two in the Senate.

And Trump's popularity is rising. He's as popular as Obama at this point and more popular within his own party than anyone but George W. Bush.

And that's the real root of the current hysteria. Trump's no going anywhere. He'll serve out his full term and will likely be reelected. It's like election night all over. A man they hate runs the country and they can't stand it.