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But who needs Brussels mandarins when supposed Conservatives in Westminster are beholden to the same orthodoxies?</p><div class="onp-locker-call" style="display: none;" data-lock-id="onpLock186268"><p><div class="onp-locker-call" style="display: none;" data-lock-id="onpLock275323"><p><div class="onp-locker-call"  data-lock-id="onpLock934866"><p>That’s the question religious leaders in the U.K. are asking themselves as Prime Minister Theresa May’s government prepares to make it mandatory for all schools&#8211;including private, faith-based institutions&#8211;to teach an ultra-progressive sex education curriculum. Under the proposal, all schools would be required to teach children from age 4 and up “age-appropriate” content that includes information about same-sex marriage and transgenderism. Catholics, evangelicals, Orthodox Jews, Muslims, and others with traditional views on sex and gender would have to comply. No exceptions.</p><p>Former Education Secretary Justine Greening first floated the idea last March on the ground that the current law is “outdated,” since many religious schools are exempt from the sex-ed curriculum requirements. The prime minister sacked Greening last month, but her successor, Damian Hinds, recently told Parliament that he remains committed to the compulsory sex-education agenda.</p><p>Greening made no effort to disguise the ideology behind her policy push, telling Sky News in July that “it is important that the church, in a way, keeps up and is part of a modern country. We have allowed same-sex marriage, that’s a massive step forward for the better. And for me, I think people do want to see our major faiths keep up with modern attitudes.”</p><p>Dame Louise Casey, another senior government adviser, singled out Catholics in particular. 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vw-type-resize-tool__button--plus' id='js-sticky-contents-resize-tool-plus'> <i class='vw-icon icon-entypo-plus'></i></div><div class='vw-type-resize-tool__a' id='js-sticky-contents-resize-tool-normal'>A</div><div class='vw-type-resize-tool__button vw-type-resize-tool__button--minus' id='js-sticky-contents-resize-tool-minus'> <i class='vw-icon icon-entypo-minus'></i></div></div></div></div><p>For the last two weeks, Washington has been fixated on a farcically complex issue involving the oversight of federal law-enforcement and intelligence agencies. In the minds of most voters, however, the president’s well-received State of the Union Address <a href="https://www.commentarymagazine.com/american-society/taking-back-language-policing-trump/">probably loomed larger</a> than the squabbling over whose memo was the most scandalous. That’s over.</p><div class="onp-locker-call" style="display: none;" data-lock-id="onpLock578750"><p><div class="onp-locker-call" style="display: none;" data-lock-id="onpLock474072"><p><div class="onp-locker-call"  data-lock-id="onpLock331050"><p>The first post-State of the Union news cycle began on Friday, the third day of the story involving the firing of a White House staffer credibly accused of physically abusing women. Until today, Donald Trump could claim to have been a victim here. He was kept in the dark about the alleged batterer in his midst by an overprotective staff, many of whom bungled the controversy surrounding his exposure. No more. Trump has now managed to put himself at the center of a controversy that will have legs.</p><p>The Porter story <a href="https://www.commentarymagazine.com/politics-ideas/degeneracy-bunker-mentality-rob-porter/">was already ugly</a> before Trump became involved. On Wednesday, a report detailing the White House staff secretary’s alleged abuses of women with whom he had been involved was published to widespread revulsion. The report included graphic images of the damage he had done to one of his alleged victims and provided details of the temporary protective order sought and obtained against him by another. The White House immediately <a href="https://www.yahoo.com/news/john-kelly-calls-aide-facing-224947677.html">rushed to Porters’ defense</a>. White House Chief of Staff John Kelly and Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders issued a glowing defense of Porter’s character and comportment. Communications Director Hope Hicks was reportedly involved in the drafting of one of those statements, despite her romantic involvement with the accused.</p><p>Sources in the White House told reporters that ranking members of the administration wanted Porter to <a href="https://www.axios.com/white-house-staff-secetary-rob-porter-resigns-abuse-allegations-9bf97afb-a59f-409f-ba74-8fb7aee20b65.html">weather the scrutiny</a>—they thought he could survive it. But he couldn’t. The scandal grew worse as the details emerged indicating that the relevant figures in the administration were aware of the allegations against Porter months before they become public knowledge. Porter resigned, only then prompting White House officials like Kelly to claim to have been “<a href="http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/372873-kelly-shocked-by-abuse-allegations-against-top-white-house-aide">shocked</a>” by the revelations about his deputy.</p><p>As of Friday morning, Trump had a reasonable claim to denying involvement in all this. His staffers <a href="http://deadline.com/2018/02/white-house-rob-porter-abuse-allegations-defend-john-kelly-omarosa-fired-no-contact-1202282215/">kept him in the dark</a>. Hope Hicks <a href="https://www.vox.com/2018/2/9/16995848/trump-hope-hicks-rob-porter-scandal">put her personal interests</a> before those of the president. The president was <a href="https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2018/02/trump-rob-porter-hope-hicks-john-kelly">reportedly furious</a> over the compartmentalization of this issue in his White House, as he should have been. That exculpatory narrative went right out the window on Friday when the president finally weighed in on the controversy. His <a href="https://twitter.com/learyreports/status/962026799101132801">statement</a> must be read in its entirety to be believed:</p><blockquote><p>We wish him well. He worked very hard. We found out about it recently, and I was surprised by it. But we certainly wish him well, and it’s a tough time for him. He did a very good job when he was in the White House, and we hope he has a wonderful career, and he will have a great career ahead of him. But it was very sad when we heard about it, and certainly he’s also very sad now. He’s also, as you probably know, says he’s innocent and I think you have to remember that. He said very strongly yesterday that he’s innocent, so you have to talk to him about that, but we absolutely wish him well. He did a very good job when he was at the White House.</p></blockquote><p>There was no mention of the ordeal endured by any of Porter’s accusers, or the fact that they had to go public with their concerns about him for them to be taking seriously. There was no concern for the wellbeing of women who may be the victims of similar abuse. In fact, from his comments, you could be forgiven for thinking that Trump believed Porter is the victim here.</p><p>You can judge the potential for a story to become an all-consuming controversy based on a few simple criteria. Is it easily summarized? Can a lay person who isn’t plugged into the political day-to-day understand it intuitively? Does it reinforce existing preconceptions or biases about the individuals or institutions involved? This story now fits all three of those criteria. No one needs to be politically astute to understand a scandal involving the claim that the president behaved with abhorrent callousness upon learning that one of his staffers allegedly beat women. Moreover, this fits into an existing narrative about Trump’s <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/all-the-times-donald-trump-defended-sexual-predatorsincluding-himself">disregard for the women</a> who accuse men of misconduct—a particularly potent charge in the #MeToo moment.</p><p>The ad writes itself. Strings swell to a melancholy crescendo as a grainy image of Porter’s ex-wife Colbie Holderness comes into view, one eye swollen and bruised from an alleged punch to the face. “It’s a tough time for him,” Trump says as the image comes into focus. “We hope he has a wonderful career and he will have a great career ahead of him . . .  He said very strongly yesterday that he’s innocent, so you have to talk to him about that, but we absolutely wish him well.”</p><p>The Porter scandal has officially become a Trump scandal.</p></div> <script type="text/bp-data" class="onp-optinpanda-params">{"lockerId":2257140,"tracking":"1","postId":2396020,"ajaxUrl":"https:\/\/www.commentarymagazine.com\/wp-admin\/admin-ajax.php","options":{"demo":0,"actualUrls":0,"text":{"header":"This article is locked! Existing subscriber? <a id=\"js-vw-modal-login\" href=\"\/wp-login.php\">Sign in.<\/a>","message":"<p>But you can easily unlock it in seconds. 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In fact, they’re often in conflict with forces loyal to that government. This is a condition we used to call an invasion. To call it what is, though, would be to shatter a convenient fiction.</p><div class="onp-locker-call" style="display: none;" data-lock-id="onpLock470992"><p><div class="onp-locker-call" style="display: none;" data-lock-id="onpLock278556"><p><div class="onp-locker-call"  data-lock-id="onpLock463559"><p>It’s been over two years since President Barack Obama <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2015/10/30/politics/syria-troops-special-operations-forces/index.html">authorized</a> the introduction of U.S. boots on the ground in Syria. Eighteen months have elapsed since U.S. forces <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/18/world/middleeast/us-airstrike-syrian-troops-isis-russia.html">first clashed</a> with troops loyal to Damascus. During this time, <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/middle_east/syria-accuses-us-of-aggression-after-its-warplanes-strike-pro-government-forces/2018/02/08/bab1502a-0cb4-11e8-8890-372e2047c935_story.html?utm_term=.fcde96d60808">the clashes</a> between U.S. forces and those loyal to Damascus (and Moscow) have increased in intensity and frequency. Moreover, <a href="https://www.commentarymagazine.com/foreign-policy/middle-east/syria/syria-chaotic-post-war-world-isis/">as predicted</a>, with the ISIS threat melting away, the Syrian battlefield is transforming into a contest between the great powers that have a claim to the spoils of that fight. Today, Syrians, Americans, Islamists, Kurds, Russians, Turks, Iranians, and sundry proxy forces are all operating in the same theater, <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-partisan/wp/2018/02/09/in-syria-russian-bad-faith-turns-fatal/?utm_term=.29c2282fe34f">shooting in different directions</a>.</p><p>Congress has had many opportunities to take up an authorization that would sanction the executive branch’s use force in Syria, both against non-state actors and the regime in Damascus. It has failed to execute its constitutionally delineated authority, preferring instead to cede that power to the executive branch. By failing to provide guidance to two administrations that wanted nothing more than to avoid involvement in Syria, Congress has allowed negligence and pusillanimity to reign. The result is chaos and crisis.</p><p>This is a matter of propriety, not legality. The Trump White House has <a href="http://www.nationalreview.com/article/446692/trump-syria-strike-constitutional-presidents-have-broad-war-powers">complied</a> with the feeble and constitutionally dubious War Powers Resolution. The Congressional Democrats and transparency groups are demanding that the White House make public a <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/sen-tim-kaine-demands-release-secret-trump-war-powers-memo-n846176">secret internal memo</a> that supposedly expands on this administration’s view of its legal authority to wage wars abroad with virtually no input from Congress. The indignation on the part of administration critics in the legislature is noteworthy, but that’s about it. There’s nothing nefarious about the White House consulting with itself on war powers, particularly considering the freedom of action it derives from congressional lethargy. Capitol Hill could render this memorandum moot any time it wishes. All it would have to do is take up a resolution authorizing the conflict in Syria that defines the parameters in which the U.S. should operate and the objectives it seeks to achieve.</p><p>This is, of course, all a sad academic exercise. Congress has no intention of preserving its authority when it comes to the expeditionary force in Syria. No lawmaker wants to be compelled by public opposition to that ill-defined conflict to vote against a resolution authorizing America’s necessary mission in the Levant. That’s political reality, but it’s not leadership. This president <a href="https://www.commentarymagazine.com/foreign-policy/middle-east/syria/avoiding-obamas-mistakes-syria/">displayed more courage</a> than his predecessor when he explained to the public last year why containing the Assad regime with force was in the national interest—a conclusion the Obama administration shared but was too timid to say out loud. Congress failed to ratify the Trump administration’s approach to this crisis. That was a mistake, but it does not have to become an inviolable precedent. Congress has the opportunity to rectify this error today by taking up a resolution authorizing force against North Korea.</p><p>This week, United States envoy Robert Wood <a href="https://nypost.com/2018/02/06/us-official-warns-of-growing-threat-from-north-korea/">reiterated the administration’s belief</a> that the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea is “only months away” from achieving the capacity to deliver a nuclear warhead to the mainland of the United States. Simultaneously, it is developing a <a href="http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-42033435">second strike capability</a> that can survive preemptive action. The administration sees these as intolerable outcomes and it might use force to prevent it from coming to pass. Whether <a href="https://www.commentarymagazine.com/foreign-policy/asia/north-korea/they-got-us-steve-bannon-north-korea/">that is a viable course of action or not</a>, the president is acting it as though it were. It is therefore incumbent on the Congress to behave accordingly.</p><p>Recently, behind-the-scenes whispers about the prospect of a “bloody nose” option for North Korea have grown louder. That would consist of a limited airstrike on Kim Jong-un’s nuclear facilities and delivery vehicles. Because the U.S. views the Kim regime as rational and believes its survival is its highest priority, it is assumed that Pyongyang might not respond to a strike as long as the U.S. broadcasted the limits of its scope. To retaliate would invite a much larger war, which the regime would not survive.</p><p>This is certainly a fraught prospect based on a lot of untested presumptions. If war were again to come to the Korean Peninsula, it would be too late to debate the prospects for mission success or failure, to say nothing of the threat posed by inaction. This Republican-dominated Congress would surely prefer to control the terms of that debate. If Democrats retake one or both chambers of the legislature, they will be leading this discussion on terms far less favorable for the administration.</p><p>The result of a Democrat-led debate on war powers is likely to result in legal encumbrances that would render it difficult if not impossible for the administration to entirely neutralize the North Korean threat. The unique suspicion this president inspires among Democratic voters coupled with widespread resentment toward the process that led so many Democrats to approve an authorization of force against Saddam Hussein’s Iraq in 2002 will put pressure on opposition party members they may be unable to resist. These conditions will transform a good-faith debate over the necessity of a strike on North Korea into a cheap political exercise.</p><p>When power is on the table, it does not stay on the table for long. The Constitution vests in Congress the authority to legitimize the use of force abroad. If the Republican-led legislature doesn’t exercise its authority, Democrats someday will. If that day comes, it would pay to be prepared. Syria has already gone pear-shaped. A desperate effort on the part of the Obama administration to avoid entanglement in that conflict <a href="http://www.nationalreview.com/article/446509/syria-non-intervention-carries-steep-price-then-now">led to the worst possible outcome:</a> a failed state and a contest among great powers to rule the rubble. 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The audience heard “we,” but the president was likely speaking about himself. The president&#8217;s persecution complex is infectious and it&#8217;s leading Republicans around Trump to make decisions they will regret for years to come.</p><div class="onp-locker-call" style="display: none;" data-lock-id="onpLock768902"><p><div class="onp-locker-call" style="display: none;" data-lock-id="onpLock210606"><p><div class="onp-locker-call"  data-lock-id="onpLock884569"><p>Most presidencies tend to develop a siege mentality over time, but the Trump administration appeared to enter office with a chip on its shoulder. It was an accidental presidency in those early days, improvisational and reckless. It was burdened with vainglorious sponges who whose egos exceeded their abilities. Most of all, it was paranoid. Those criticisms the president and his administration endured in the early months were earned, but that made for an insular organization fixated on loyalty and tribal moiety. It didn’t help matters that the president who managed affairs was himself prone to conspiratorial thinking. From the political press to the “deep state” to the president’s own Justice Department, Trump’s imagined enemies haunted him.</p><p>Despite the defenestration of most of the sycophants that staffed the nascent Trump administration and reinforced the president’s paranoia, the bunker mentality persists. This predisposition has several effects. It has instilled in Trump’s supporters the same cageyness that afflicts the president. It has also led the White House to close ranks even to its own detriment. That impulse perhaps explains the bizarre and sordid story involving the belated resignation of White House Staff Secretary Rob Porter.</p><p>Porter allegedly beat women. According to a <em><a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5362823/Ex-wife-WH-aide-dating-Hope-Hicks-says-choked-her.html">Daily Mail</a></em> report published Wednesday, he emotionally and physically abused his ex-wives—one of whom provided photographic evidence to prove it, which she also shared with the FBI. Porter purportedly tore one former spouse naked from a shower, forced his hand through panes of glass in fits of rage, and compelled another ex-wife to seek legal redress after he violated the terms of their separation agreement by menacing her in her apartment. The temporary protective order she received in 2010 concluded that “reasonable grounds exist to believe that [Porter] has committed family abuse and there is probable danger of a further such offense.” The <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2018/02/07/politics/rob-porter-white-house-who-knew/index.html">White House knew about all of this</a>. The FBI informed the White House of the allegations against Porter as <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/white-house-rob-porter-resigns-abuse-allegations/?ftag=CNM-00-10aab7e&amp;linkId=47862351">early as November</a>. One of Porter&#8217;s ex-girlfriends <a href="https://www.politico.com/story/2018/02/07/john-kelly-porter-allegations-abuse-398168?lo=ap_d1">expressed her concerns</a> about him directly to White House counsel Don McGahn. Still, it’s principals rallied to Porter’s side.</p><p>“Rob Porter is a man of true integrity and honor, and I can’t say enough good things about him,” White House Chief of Staff John Kelly initially said of his deputy in a statement released Wednesday. “I am proud to serve alongside him.” The statement was reportedly <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2018/02/07/politics/rob-porter-white-house-who-knew/index.html">co-drafted</a> by White House Communications Director Hope Hicks, who was involved in a romantic relationship with Porter. White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders echoed Kelly, calling Porter a man of “the highest integrity and exemplary character.” If Porter had to go, <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/senior-white-house-official-to-resign-following-allegations-of-abuse/2018/02/07/49aa80b8-0c19-11e8-baf5-e629fc1cd21e_story.html?utm_term=.519f49a18ed9">the plan</a> was for him to stay on for at least several more weeks. But the demands for Porter’s job grew louder when it was revealed by unnamed officials in the White House that Kelly was aware of the charges against Porter, which is one of the reasons why his deputy had repeatedly failed to obtain a security clearance. Nevertheless, officials <a href="https://twitter.com/PhilipRucker/status/961572772479725574">inside and outside</a> the White House urged Porter to “<a href="https://www.axios.com/white-house-staff-secetary-rob-porter-resigns-abuse-allegations-9bf97afb-a59f-409f-ba74-8fb7aee20b65.html">stay and fight</a>.”</p><p>Porter’s better judgment eventually prevailed. According to reports, he determined that he had become an unnecessary distraction and submitted his resignation. Thus, more than 24 hours after providing a statement in support of Porter on the record, Kelly issued <a href="https://www.politico.com/story/2018/02/07/john-kelly-porter-allegations-abuse-398168">another statement</a> condemning him. “I was shocked by the new allegations released today against Rob Porter,” the new dispatch read. “There is no place for domestic violence in our society.”</p><p>Only the kind of tunnel vision typical of life in the bunker can explain the nearsightedness that led the White House to think it could cover up a scandal like this and then weather the storm once it was exposed. Only if you have convinced yourself that your critics are beyond reason would you fail to see the obvious pitfalls associated with circling the wagons around an alleged serial abuser. John Kelly brought order to a chaotic West Wing. He’s an honorable figure who imposed sobriety on an atmosphere that was freewheeling and unserious. But he, too, succumbed to the myopia with which everyone with a siege mentality suffers.</p><p>The political impact of this debacle might not be short-lived. John Kelly’s position is in jeopardy. His resignation would suit those in Trump’s orbit who want to see a return to those early chaotic days of the administration. The Republican Party, too, has suffered a terrible setback. Democrats argued in bad faith that the GOP tacitly supported abusing women when some Republican senators opposed the Violence Against Women Act in 2013 because, among other things, it encouraged local police responding to a domestic disturbance call to make a “<a href="http://nation.time.com/2013/02/27/whats-wrong-with-the-violence-against-women-act/">mandatory arrest</a>” of someone—anyone—and flirted with unconstitutionality by allowing non-Native Americans accused of assault to be tried in tribal courts. Today, Democrats no longer have to stretch so hard to make the “<a href="http://www.cnn.com/2012/03/15/politics/senate-vawa-accusations/index.html">anti-women</a>” accusations stick.</p><p>The wagon-circling around Porter is a familiar sort of corruption. It’s the same impulse that led Trump’s allies to back former Alabama Senate candidate Roy Moore against his many accusers because, <a href="http://money.cnn.com/2017/12/20/media/breitbart-alex-marlow-roy-moore/index.html">in the words</a> of Breitbart’s Alex Marlow, to fail to do so would “create a standard” of acceptable conduct with women that Trump himself could not match. It’s the same degeneracy that led the president to wrestle with how forcefully to condemn violent white supremacists because some of them <a href="https://www.commentarymagazine.com/politics-ideas/explaining-donald-trump-charlottesville-behavior/">might have been</a> <em>his</em> white supremacists. 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Trudeau became the subject of derision and mockery when he interrupted a woman at a town hall to correct her use of the term “mankind,” suggesting that she replace this dated designation with the more inclusive “peoplekind.” He only offered his proposal after enduring several minutes of a rambling new-age <a href="https://twitter.com/ddale8/status/960909840775249921">monologue</a> regarding the chemical composition of “maternal love.” Trudeau&#8217;s interjection was probably flippant, but neither his interlocutor nor his critics seemed to notice. It’s hard to blame them.</p><div class="onp-locker-call" style="display: none;" data-lock-id="onpLock698502"><p><div class="onp-locker-call" style="display: none;" data-lock-id="onpLock482058"><p><div class="onp-locker-call"  data-lock-id="onpLock446397"><p>When it comes to subservience to the many demands that identity politics makes on <a href="http://everydayforlifecanada.blogspot.com/2017/10/diversity-is-our-strength-says-justin.html">language</a> and <a href="https://www.commentarymagazine.com/foreign-policy/trudeau-canada-progress-2015/">behavior</a>, Canada’s prime minister takes a back seat to no one. It’s only prudent to assume Trudeau’s mawkishness is earnest. What’s more, the fact that “gendered” nouns and pronouns, including “mankind,” find themselves in the censors’ crosshairs isn’t exactly news. The popular grammar-checking program Grammarly flags “mankind” for “possible gender-biased language” and suggests more neutral substitutes like “humankind” or “humanity.” Learning to love unidiomatic expressions and consigning gender-specific language to history is a <a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/student/news/university-cardiff-metropolitan-bans-phrases-mankind-gentlemans-agreement-gender-neutral-terms-free-a7609521.html">fixation of political activists</a> posing as academicians, even if legitimate etymological scholars cannot support these arguments by citing <a href="https://io9.gizmodo.com/5962243/think-twice-before-using-mankind-to-mean-all-humanity-say-scholars">linguistic corpora</a>. Those who resent an increasingly overbroad definition of what constitutes offensive language are primed for a fight.</p><p>Language policing has been the stock-in-trade of a particular type of activist for decades, much to the consternation of both conservatives and liberals interested more in clarity than conformity. Recently, though, the <a href="http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2015/01/not-a-very-pc-thing-to-say.html">intramural debate</a> on the left over the limited utility of scrutinizing potentially objectionable speech rather than the ideas conveyed by that speech has been relegated to the back burner. That’s for a good reason.</p><p>Donald Trump’s presidency, much like his candidacy, is a brusque counterattack against “PC culture.” Often, what Trump and his supporters call “politically incorrect” language is just plain rudeness. The value of the kind of speech they find delightfully provocative isn’t its concision but its capacity to offend the right people. Thus, some self-styled arbiters of linguistic enlightenment might be tempted to dismiss Trump’s campaign against ambiguous semantics as nothing more than a brutish primal scream. If so, they would have failed to properly appreciate the threat Trump and the presidential pulpit he commands represent to their capacity to shape the terms of the debate through language. Trump isn’t limited to displays of rhetorical brute force. Sometimes, he and his speechwriters are capable of compelling eloquence.</p><p>Amid a blizzard of FBI texts, dueling intelligence committee memos, and legalisms regarding the oversight of America’s necessarily secretive espionage courts, the State of the Union address has all but been forgotten in Washington. It’s less likely, though, that a <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2018/01/31/politics/state-of-the-union-reaction-poll/index.html">well-received speech</a> watched by at least 46 million Americans will be so quickly forgotten across the country. And that should concern liberals because if there was any single line in that speech that won’t be overlooked, it was one that cuts at the heart of the Democratic Party’s ability to lay claim to the moral high ground. “My duty and the sacred duty of every elected official in this chamber is to defend Americans, to protect their safety, their families, their communities and their right to the American dream,” <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2018/01/30/politics/americans-are-dreamers-too/index.html">Trump said</a>. “Because Americans are dreamers, too.” This was a masterful line. Its potency has been underestimated, and not just by those who resent the restrictive immigration policies it was designed to advance.</p><p>The name of the bipartisan 2001 “Development, Relief, and Education for Alien Minors Act” transgressed a little in order to achieve a lot for the children of illegal immigrants brought into the U.S. as minors. Referring to this demographic as “alien” is taboo, and an offense against modern sensibilities. But to describe them as “DREAMers” yields a windfall of sympathy for this already deserving group of largely <a href="https://www.commentarymagazine.com/politics-ideas/death-of-compromise-immigration/">naturalized</a> non-citizens. Trump’s turn of phrase spreads the dreaming around, thus diluting the designation DREAMer of much of its unique sympathy.</p><p>Democrats might have missed the significance of this expression amid their irritation over another set phrase in that speech: “chain migration.” Trump’s use of this term during the State of the Union Address to describe the process by which legal immigrants sponsor members of their extended family to become American citizens elicited <a href="https://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2018/01/30/trump-state-of-the-union-sot-democrats-chain-migration.cnn">boos</a> from Democrats. Many <a href="https://www.northjersey.com/story/opinion/columnists/2018/02/06/chain-migration-not-racist-term-democrats-republican/312131002/">implied</a> the phrase is a new invention with racist connotations, but the term has been used by policymakers (including some of <a href="http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/democrats-think-chain-migration-is-a-racist-term-but-they-said-it-themselves-in-october/article/2647869">these same Democrats</a>) for decades. Maybe it was the self-evident hypocrisy, or maybe it was the contrived effort to move the goalposts. For whatever reason, the Democrats’ campaign to label “chain migration” a racist term landed with a thud. Time was that the left could dictate the terms of a debate by controlling the language of its participants, but their grip on the national dialogue may be slipping. 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