This will be the death of the GOP.

There were a lot awful things he could have done to throw red meat to his base. He could have held families indefinitely (which is what he's doing now) and ramped up the terribleness as we got more and more accustomed to it.

But, NO, not Trump. He went straight to prying crying, terrified babies out of their mothers' arms to be shipped off to... ?

And he thought that normal human beings would just shrug it all off. Like a defenseless, frightened, and crying baby doesn't provoke an instinctive protective reaction in anyone who sees or hears it. This reaction has been honed by millions of years of evolution. Everyone feels it.

Unless you are not normal. Unless there is something seriously wrong with you. Unless you are a textbook sociopath.

There were a lot awful things he could have done to throw red meat to his base. He could have held families in cells indefinitely (which is what he's doing now) and just ramped up the terribleness as we got more and more accustomed to it.

But, NO, not Trump. He went straight to prying crying, terrified babies out of their mothers' arms to be shipped off to... ?

And he thought that we would all just shrug it all off. Like a defenseless, frightened, and crying baby doesn't provoke an instinctive protective reaction in anyone who sees or hears it. This reaction has been honed by millions of years of evolution. Everyone feels it.

Unless you are not normal. Unless there is something seriously wrong with you. Unless you are a textbook sociopath.

They have no plans to return them or re-unite them with parents. There has been little record keeping.

The Trump regime is not even competent at the fascism they aspire to. Fascists are generally renowned for record-keeping and bureaucracies and red tape.

Just thuggery.

Essentially, Mussolini 2.0. He has even adopted Mussolini's mannerisms.