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I would argue that the case for dismantling ICE has, at this point, virtually nothing to do with larger questions of immigration enforcement and reform, it's just clearly incompatible with a free and democratic society to maintain a secret police force with sweeping and arbitrary authority.
Senator Gallego weighs in as well. Note that at the start of 2025 he was considered a *moderate* on immigration and co-sponsored the Laken Riley Act. Him and many other Dems have been increasingly horrified at what ICE is doing and shifted away from a "more enforcement" focus.
January 21, 2026 at 11:09 PM
I would argue that the case for dismantling ICE has, at this point, virtually nothing to do with larger questions of immigration enforcement and reform, it's just clearly incompatible with a free and democratic society to maintain a secret police force with sweeping and arbitrary authority.
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every month we spend with him embarrassing himself to no benefit while having a nominal trifecta & a still mostly prostrate judiciary is another month closer to having tools to really frustrate him
We'll see, but I don't think the apparent TACO on Greenland will last long. It's just another case of "last person he talked to," and that won't be the Europeans once he's back at the West Wing / Mar-a-Lago. For their own anti-NATO reasons, too many in the inner circle are determined to push this.
January 21, 2026 at 8:09 PM
every month we spend with him embarrassing himself to no benefit while having a nominal trifecta & a still mostly prostrate judiciary is another month closer to having tools to really frustrate him
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One thing I'd like to see from the Democratic Party is an explicit attempt to build the sort of transnational solidarity between parties of liberal democracy that exists between parties of the nationalist far right.
January 20, 2026 at 8:21 PM
One thing I'd like to see from the Democratic Party is an explicit attempt to build the sort of transnational solidarity between parties of liberal democracy that exists between parties of the nationalist far right.