The Border Deal Is a Bad Deal Regardless of Trump’s Opposition

You’ve got to hand it to former president Trump. He took time this week between court appearances and RINO attacks for a drive-by fusillade aimed at the border. Simultaneously, though inadvertently, he could undermine besieged Texas’s struggle against President Biden’s sabotage while giving Senate Republicans cover to cut a deal with Biden that would undermine the rule of law and roll out the red carpet for millions more illegal aliens.

In a couple of Truth Social posts (here and here), the former president jumped into the fray over whether the border crisis is the result of an “invasion” that warrants invocation of what he referred to as the Constitution’s “Invasion Clause.” Predictably, he’s under attack (as is Texas’s Republican governor, Gregg Abbott) for allegedly inflammatory rhetoric.

That is meant to remind you of the wages of Trump’s January 6 rhetoric. On that score, it is indeed precious to find Democrats and commentators in a snit over the word “invasion” after they’ve spent three years telling us the three-hour Capitol riot, in which no security personnel were killed, was an “insurrection” and an atrocity on the scale of 9/11 or Pearl Harbor (in which thousands were killed).