Mitch McConnell Gets an Earful Over Separated Migrant Children

Photo: Aaron P. Bernstein (Getty Images) Mitch McConnell got an earful from angry protesters shouting “Where are the babies?” Saturday as the Senate majority leader left a Louisville, KY restaurant. McConnell had just finished having lunch with Kentucky’s House Majority Floor Leader Jonathan Shell when the group of protesters challenged him to abolish Immigration and…

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Nativism Is Bad Politics

Photo: AP Since last Tuesday, centrist pundits have been apoplectic with fear that some progressive Democrats running to the left on immigration will harm the whole party’s chances in November and beyond. The underlying assumption in this argument is that the farthest left you can go on immigration, if you want to win in a…

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