Trump Pulls A Lincoln By Pulling ICE Cream

Letter to Romans: As Lincoln did in Civil War, Trump learned in Minneapolis public support is everything & so is timing. Lincoln waited to unleash Sherman. The smart move by No. 47 after 2 protester deaths was to refocus ICE on criminal illegals & DOJ on Medicaid fraudsters.

The wise patience of Abraham Lincoln is legendary. Now is a good time to recall it took the Illinois lawyer over 3 years to “take the other fist from behind his back” & really lower the boom on the Confederacy. That is, by greenlighting Gens. Grant & Sherman’s scorched earth strategy to finally, mercifully end the nation’s holocaust, in which well over 700,000 men died. As Abe was fond of saying, “Without public support nothing is possible, but with it nothing is impossible. So, as Doris Kearns Goodwin explained in “Team of Rivals,” Mr. Lincoln waited until public support for the Emancipation Proclamation was ripe to sign it, then, a year or so later, he elevated the two fighting generals needed to deal successfully with the implacable rebels.

History does repeat itself after all. As the WSJ’s editors have noted, it took Mr. Trump 48 hours to “assess” the PR hit his once popular ICE surge in Minneapolis was taking as events unfolded there. His own party loyalists were pointing out how the Marxist mob – egged on by a so-called Sanctuary mayor & governor -- was managing to make the feds look bad. The mob was even dominating the news cycle, where the stupidity of their political allies, i,e., in letting a massive Medicaid fraud scandal happen under their watch, should still be. By pulling a “Lincoln,” Trump now stands to regain the high ground enforcing the immigration laws nationwide, especially against violent illegal aliens with criminal histories, as John Q Public wants. The majority of Americans will also now be expecting the whimpering mayor & governor to fully cooperate with ICE as the Constitution requires; if not, they’ll be the ones kicking their PR advisors & lawyering up as DOJ sets its sights on them. Meanwhile, the mobsters will have to go back to justifying their aiding monsters who make the city’s crime rate surge.

Davd Soul