re: #43 Anymouse

Nope. Republicans have been on the immigrant / minority bashing kick ever since Ronald Reagan kicked off his campaign in Philadelphia, Miss.

They will do what he wants, because what he wants is what conservatives have wanted all my adult life.

Remember also that the executive order that allowed rounding up Japanese-Americans and German-Americans in WW2 has never been revoked. Plessy v Furgeson was not overturned by Brown v Board of Education. (Separate but equal was banned for schools, but the overarching idea of segregation was not overturned in that decision.)

My point was not articulated correctly.

Anything he has to go to Congress to get funds for (specifically, his proposed budget) is not likely to get through, such as the increased military spending, cuts to the State Department, and funding the wall. He is also going after non-discretionary spending, which is one way pork gets brought home to districts and is only a drop in the bucket of the budget. He also does not want to touch entitlements, which means Paul Ryan will be incandescent. That budget will get torn up.

I am much, much more concerned about the same things you are. Using the National Guard to augment ICE. Controls on immigration, deportation, keeping people from entering the country even legally. He’s basically attempting to build his own private military force to operate within the U.S.

I am MUCH less confident that will be stopped and it concerns me tremendously.

I am also very concerned about Jeff Sessions and the civil rights/voting rights issues he’s abandoning but we can fight those without the Justice Department. God bless the ACLU.