Unpersuasive. Only journalists and news junkies care about cases like this. Most people could care less about the rights of criminals and terrorist-adjacent protestors. The “vibe shift” is simply people going back to their lives. If Trump does something big like eliminating taxes for working people, the Democrats will be finished for a generation.
Re Khalil there is no meaning to citizenship if there aren't some rights which non-citizens do not possess, and by definition these are political rights. There is a difference between "free speech" and what Khalil (and may others) engage in: their systematic misrepresentation as students to get visas in order to engage in activism hostile to the interests of the host country.
Advocating for him is like defending the right of a house guest to rig the house they stay to burn down. He is more the classic 5th columnist than a student.
Note: "Trump’s entire late-in-life political career has been defined by such cycles and his uncanny instinct for playing them to his short- to medium-term advantage" is true to the extent that he has effectively used these cycles to consolidate control over the GOP base; however, of course in a post-2024 election context, that means converging to his floor rather than his ceiling.
Unpersuasive. Only journalists and news junkies care about cases like this. Most people could care less about the rights of criminals and terrorist-adjacent protestors. The “vibe shift” is simply people going back to their lives. If Trump does something big like eliminating taxes for working people, the Democrats will be finished for a generation.
Re Khalil there is no meaning to citizenship if there aren't some rights which non-citizens do not possess, and by definition these are political rights. There is a difference between "free speech" and what Khalil (and may others) engage in: their systematic misrepresentation as students to get visas in order to engage in activism hostile to the interests of the host country.
Advocating for him is like defending the right of a house guest to rig the house they stay to burn down. He is more the classic 5th columnist than a student.
Sad how many of you are so evil you’d side with a fentanyl dealer so long as it’s a crying woman.
But that’s the politic he has to contend with if he wants to succeed
Note: "Trump’s entire late-in-life political career has been defined by such cycles and his uncanny instinct for playing them to his short- to medium-term advantage" is true to the extent that he has effectively used these cycles to consolidate control over the GOP base; however, of course in a post-2024 election context, that means converging to his floor rather than his ceiling.