When it comes to family separation, some Republicans have changed the subject. Others have deflected false blame onto Democrats. A few have spoken out against it, but refused to do anything to end it. And then there are the Republicans who are all for tearing children out of their parents’ arms and putting them in cages.
Republicans like Virginia Senate nominee Corey Stewart, who thinks separating families is in the “best interest of the United States.” Or like Rep. Lou Barletta, running for Senate in Pennsylvania, or West Virginia attorney general and Senate candidate Patrick Morrisey, both of whom think that if the Trump administration doesn’t separate families, it’s giving them “separate laws” or “special privileges.”
Speaking of special, Rep. Kevin Cramer, who’s running for Senate in North Dakota, has a really special take on the cages the U.S. government is putting migrant children and adults into:
“There’s nothing inhumane about a chain-link fence ― if it is, then every ballpark in America is inhumane,” he added.
Cramer repeated that line of thinking on two different radio stations—those aren’t cages because chain-link fence is sometimes used for other purposes! “By the way, chain-link fences are around playgrounds all over America,” the man said. Go figure, he apparently left unmentioned that the chain-link fences around playgrounds and ballparks have openings and people are free to walk out and leave, and there typically aren’t armed guards keeping Little League players from leaving the field. Also the players on your typical baseball field surrounded by a chain-link fence have not had their personal possessions down to their shoelaces taken away from them and been loaded screaming into separate vehicles from parents they may never see again.
So, you know, a couple minor differences there.
This family separation cheerleading is coming to you from four Republican candidates for U.S. Senate, two of them already members of the House and one a state attorney general. That’s the Republican Party in 2018.
This kind of sadism is why it’s so important to take back the House. Can you give $1 to elect a Democrat in each Daily Kos-targeted House district?
And don’t forget the Senate. Can you give $3 to elect Democrats in Nevada and Arizona?