Congrats, Trump. Even Republicans want ICE gone. |
So it turns out Americans don’t love widespread cruelty.
For the first time ever in YouGov polling, 50% of Americans now strongly or somewhat support abolishing U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Only 39% of respondents strongly or somewhat oppose abolishing ICE and, in a remarkable twist, nearly a quarter of Republicans want ICE gone.
That’s a mighty big shift from the not-too-long-ago days when Democrats were warned that “Abolish ICE” was an electorally risky slogan best avoided.
ICE has become hugely unpopular. Maybe it's all the cruelty.
Perhaps it’s the way roving bands of masked federal agents have descended onto American cities like invading forces, violently stuffing migrants and U.S. citizens into unmarked vehicles while gunning down innocent protesters and later falsely labeling them “domestic terrorists.” Maybe it’s the twisted, unapologetic way President Donald Trump and his vampire-the-other-vampires-avoid adviser Stephen Miller speak........