Ignoring court orders and deporting people to El Salvador without providing reasonable notice and hearings is a crime. The Trump tariff scheme is a blunder. So far, Trump is paying a price in the polls and the markets for the latter, but not the former. A few years from now, will America’s opinions have changed? It depends on what happens next; Trump has been somewhat deterred on the economic front, but emboldened, if anything, on his tropical gulag.
The question keeps coming up–should the Democrats just talk about the tariffs and shut up about the more popular deportations? The correct answer is that it is unnecessary to choose. It is essential to emphasize both.
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