The time to clutch pearls has ended.

The nasty guy quite a while ago demanded refugees applying for asylum stay in Mexico until their case is decided. I won’t go into the huge numbers of ways the process can go wrong and does (which is a feature, not a flaw). José Andrés and his World Central Kitchen, made famous by feeding people in Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria, has now opened a dining hall tent in the refugees camp in Matamoros. Families can eat with dignity. Local organizations are assisting.



The Supremes, in a 5-4 vote, is allowing the nasty guy to use a wealth test to screen immigrants. The policy is that if the immigrant will need public services the nasty guy doesn’t want them.

That ruling came on Holocaust Remembrance Day, which this year marks the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz. David Walsh tweeted:

Fun fact for Holocaust Remembrance Day: this was the same tactic used to keep European Jews out of the United States in the 1930s.

Walsh adds the details that the earlier law went into effect well before Jews became refugees fleeing the Nazis and that other laws were more important in keeping Jews out. Even so, it was a factor.



Skyedweller tweeted:

I sure hope that each candidate for presidential nominee has a plan for what to do when Trump refuses to leave office and the GOP backs him up.

She goes on to say that candidate Elizabeth Warren does. Well, not quite. Warren released a plan to rid government of nasty guy appointees and appoint replacements and do so quickly. But I don’t think her plan deals with the nasty guy barricading himself in the Oval Office.

And if the nasty guy won’t leave, the GOP senators who are giving him unlimited power may not leave either. Bree Newsome Bass tweeted:

We need to be prepared for Republicans refusing to vacate seats and power. They’ve already made it clear they don’t believe in the integrity of the election. This is about a raw power grab by a party that fears it can’t stay in power by democratic means.

Louis Bridgeman replied:

The time to clutch pearls has ended.
The time has come to grab courage.

Leonard Pitts of the Miami Herald wrote in an opinion piece that he saw no point in reaching out to nasty guy voters. Many of his readers were disappointed in that statement. Pitts wrote another piece saying that many people believe that the nasty guy phenomenon was about fiscal insecurity. But Pitts says he has never seen an email from a supporter explain things in terms of a factory or coal mine shutting down. He wrote:

The decisive reason that white, male, older and less educated voters were disproportionately pro-Trump is that they shared his prejudices and wanted domineering, aggressive leaders.

They want the racism the nasty guy is selling.



Martin Longman of The Washington Monthly reports of a technology called geofencing that the nasty guy’s campaign is exploiting and Democrats will soon do as well:

It begins with geofencing, a practice that involves tracking every cell phone that enters a predefined area, like a church or MAGA rally. Armed with these phone numbers, identities can be sussed out from other commercial databases, and then people can be sorted by how frequently they vote, their party registration (if any), and all manner of personal information.