In a heated exchange, Fox News’ Geraldo Rivera verbally threw up his hands at host Sean Hannity’s full-fledged refusal to accept any immigrants from the caravan into the U.S., quipping, “What, are you gonna shoot ‘em, Sean?”
As Rivera was making the case that most people in the caravan are just seeking to better their lives, former White House aide Seb Gorka jumped in, saying that Rivera’s comments are “beneath” him.
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— TPM Livewire (@TPMLiveWire) October 23, 2018
Well, if there’s anything Seb Gorka is in a position to comment on, it’s what’s beneath nearly anyone else on the planet.
If you read social media you quickly discover that there are lots of Trumpers who do want to shoot people in the caravan. What we need is a rational Central America policy. We need to do something to make sure all that foreign aid we send there ends up in the hands of regular people and not elite politicians who are doing nothing to help or protect their own people. We used to have a real problem with Mexicans fleeing to America, but that went away when we did NAFTA. The Mexicans got jobs and didn’t have to leave home. The same thing could happen in Central America if we had a rational foreign policy, instead we have crazy talk, fear and loathing.
This situation is going to be a blood bath. How is the military going to stop thousands of people without violence?
Certainly if you treat a thing as necessarily a violence-generating crisis, it’s more likely to work out that way. Every beat cop knows that much. But theatening dire consequences is all Trump knows. Defusing a situation is not in his skill set and it’s not a thing he sees as a “win.” Most of all he needs this sense of looming threats to make his schtick work. But I doubt there’ll be violence anywhere but in the rhetoric.
Guess I’ll need to update this to “seconds”…
Sad!