Even Trump advisors are bothered by ICE

The New Republic - In a startling development, some of President Trump's advisers have suddenly realized that unleashing heavily armed government militias on American cities to terrorize American citizens with abandon just might be a tad unpopular with Americans.

Yep, it's true. Axios reports that Trump's team recently viewed private polling that shows "support for his immigration policies falling," raising concerns about Trump's "confrontational enforcement tactics." Some advisers are talking about "recalibrating" that approach.

Which means it's apparently necessary to state the following point: No recalibrated or sanitized version of the assault that Trump and Stephen Miller are waging on American cities right now, most prominently Minneapolis, is available to them or anyone else. That's because it's a campaign of deliberate terror: The policy is the terror, and the terror is the policy.

Note how Axios describes these internal deliberations. Trump apparently has misgivings about the "optics" of ICE tactics. One adviser says this:

"I wouldn't say he's concerned about the policy," a top Trump adviser told Axios. "He wants mass deportations. What he doesn't want is what people are seeing. He doesn't like the way it looks. It looks bad, so he's expressed some discomfort at that."

"There's the right way to do this," that adviser added. "And this doesn't look like the right way to a lot of people."