2020 Democratic candidate Julián Castro said on Sunday that President Donald Trump likes to “terrorize” migrant families with his severe anti-immigration policies.
During an appearance on CNN’s “State of the Union,” Castro blasted Trump’s plans to order mass raids to round up undocumented immigrants in large cities.
“What’s very clear is this President likes to terrorize these migrant families,” Castro told reporter Brianna Keilar. “He likes to scare them.”
“He likes to use this issue as a political weapon to draw up fear and paranoia in his base and he thinks that this is going to help him get re-elected with a narrow electoral college victory in 2020 the way he got in 2016,” he continued.
Castro, who served as former President Barack Obama’s Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, made headlines for his debate performance on Wednesday, during which he dominated the discussion on immigration reform and excoriated 2020 rival Beto O’Rourke on his immigration record.
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Julián Castro: It's clear Trump like to "terrorize" migrant families pic.twitter.com/jzfntUEO56
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Candidates should perform a service to the broader campaign and coordinate their messages on topics like this to include an attack on Mitch. Something like:
“Trump likes to terrorize migrant families. And by the way, leader McConnell is ok with that and that’s why the terror continues. Vote in 2020!”
In this case, Castro is wrong, it’s Stephen Milller, who likes to terrrorize migrants…
Miller’s directing the rhetoric, but is only successful at the terrorizing, because it plays so deeply into Trump’s inherent cruelty.
Their sadism is a feature, not a bug.
Both, among others.
If Castro is suggesting Trump takes glee in tormenting brown kids and their parents, that honor would better be placed on Trump’s father, Fred. Woodie Guthrie wrote:
We should remember that the Trump perspective is quite foreign to most of us, but those who get it love the cover it provides for what they believe to be innocent covert racism. As we’ve seen with Orban, Putin, Assad, and many others, the key to dismantling the rule of law is to get groups in society squabbling with each other.