I did a good bit of this at The Hayride on Monday, in a post objecting to endangered RINO Senator.I did a good bit of this at The Hayride on Monday, in a post objecting to endangered RINO Senator Bill Cassidy’s going wobbly on the ICE deployments after last weekend’s developments. Let’s start with what I said there, and then we’ll add more after the excerpt. I’m not about…
I did a good bit of this at The Hayride on Monday, in a post objecting to endangered RINO Senator Bill Cassidy’s going wobbly on the ICE deployments after last weekend’s developments. Let’s start with what I said there, and then we’ll add more after the excerpt…
I’m not about to say I was happy over the death of a radical anti-ICE protester over the weekend. His name was Alex Pretti, and he was a 37-year-old male nurse at a VA hospital who appeared to be well-liked and good at his job.
I’ve watched the videos of Pretti’s death at the hands of ICE agents over the weekend, and counter to what the Left are now screaming in unison that he was “murdered,” I don’t claim any particular superpowers of discernment that indicate much other than a scrum, chaos and utterly idiotic situation that was bound to go badly.
What I do know is that Alex Pretti brought a gun to a protest of federal law enforcement agents engaged in an operation to deport a criminal illegal alien. He had a right to carry a firearm to that protest. But then Alex Pretti thought it would be a good idea to grapple with ICE agents as the protest turned into a mini-riot, and found out different.
I’m not even saying it was a “good shoot” that caused his death. I’m going to be agnostic about that question. What I will say is that wading into a team of ICE officers as they’re trying to do a job the people elected Donald Trump president in order that it would get done, and furthermore is a job a large majority of Americans support being done, is a very stupid and dangerous thing to do and generated very predictable results.
Oh, yeah — in case you missed it, Trump’s deportations are still very popular, as Brian Joondeph notes at American Thinker…
Night after night, TV viewers see images of angry protesters, breathless commentary about “authoritarian crackdowns,” the familiar ‘Trump is Hitler/Nazi/fascist’ trope, and sympathetic portrayals of activists blocking Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). The media narrative is clear: Americans are revolting against deportations.
But polling tells a very different story.
A recent Rasmussen Reports survey shows that nearly two-thirds of Americans support President Trump’s efforts to locate and deport illegal immigrants. That includes a majority of independents, more than a third of Democrats, and almost two-thirds of Hispanic respondents.
Support spans all age groups. Black and White voters show nearly identical approval ratings. This isn’t fringe sentiment; it’s mainstream opinion. Yet, this reality is almost entirely missing from media coverage.
The disconnect matters because it reveals how much narrative has replaced analysis in today’s political journalism. Protests are viewed as substitutes for public opinion, while polling — especially when it contradicts preferred stories — is ignored, downplayed, or dismissed.
Regarding immigration, the media’s main belief is that enforcement equals cruelty, and opposition equals compassion. They often claimed that Trump put kids in cages, ignoring that the practice existed before Trump and expanded during Obama. They also called Barack Obama the “deporter in chief,” deporting more illegal aliens than Trump.
But voters are not nearly so simplistic. The Rasmussen data suggest Americans still believe in something unfashionable in elite ruling class circles: laws should be enforced, and national borders should mean something.
Independent voters, who tend to decide elections in competitive districts, approve of enforcement efforts.
