The GOP are not populists:
The administration is using the very unpopular policy of family separation as leverage to get money for the very unpopular policy of building a wall.
— Geoffrey Skelley is watching the World Cup⚽️ (@geoffreyvs) June 19, 2018
modern GOP has been here repeatedly. in 2011, they threatened unpopular debt crisis as leverage to get unpopular budget cuts. ending up backing down on both because…they were unpopular https://t.co/VfAO2ygjy2
— John Harwood (@JohnJHarwood) June 19, 2018