Vox Populi:

President Trump’s immigration push is just the latest move in our long history of incarceration for profit. I wallowed for a decade or so behind bars while watching so-called tough-on-crime Republicans ride the fear of us law-breaking drug addicts to election success again and again, which left President Bill Clinton little choice but to jump on the paddy wagon.

Most Republicans went along with his Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994 because it adhered to the rhetoric, right or wrong, that voters latch onto concerning crime. But not Newt Gingrich. He made a career of dividing and conquering Americans based on lie-laced whining. McKay Coppins, in his article “The Man Who Broke Politics,” affirms this: “I think that his defining legacy is that he enshrined this combative, tribal, angry attitude in politics that would infect our national discourse in Washington and Congress for decades to come.” Gingrich’s goal was to fulfill the fantasy that government doesn’t work, and he’s done a damn good job of it.

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