Susan Glasser
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And it's this spreading of fear.
I think all of us are infected by it to a certain extent because I...
Those videos now are pretty inescapable.
Whatever media platform you're on, you risk being exposed to horrific scenes at any given moment on your day.
You can see a clip of some poor woman being dragged out of her car, possibly beaten up by these ICE agents, masked men, possibly in front of her children on the school line.
I mean, so we're all being exposed to these on purpose, on purpose.
to these horrific scenes.
And I think that's very much by design.
And to bring it back to Donald Trump, it is a reason among many for his falling approval ratings in the society.
While people still support very much so, Democrats and Republicans, what he's done at the border and the idea of not having essentially an open way into the country for new illegal
There's not a lot of support and including ebbing support inside the Republican Party for the tactics that are being used inside this country.
And I think there are a lot of people, my guess is, including a lot of people who voted for Donald Trump because he thought he was going to bring down prices on day one, like he said he was going to do.
I don't think they voted for cutting taxes.
research funding for cancer.
I don't think they voted for like beating the crap out of immigrant mothers in front of their children and large groups of armed masked men roaming the streets of our cities.
I heard a horrific story recently about our neighbors to the north in Canada, which is very much integrated with the United States in so many different ways.
And children at a high school in Canada who decided not to go to their
mock trial competition in Chicago because some of the participants from the Canadian team were Canadian immigrants.
They had Canadian citizenship, but were afraid to go to Chicago.
And the other kids agonized over it, took a vote, said, we got to stand in solidarity with our team members.