Susan Glasser

This kind of power being wielded by an unchecked executive is literally like the nightmare that the founding fathers envisioned from the very beginning for a reason.

It's completely devoid of ideology, and what it speaks to is something that anybody can be targeted for.

Yeah, I mean, I think that is really important through line, actually, from we're talking about Comey and the abuse of power.

When you get to this question of immigrants and who's afraid in this society right now, who's being targeted most explicitly in the society, you know, it's the spreading of fear on some level that is the most important.

kind of strikingly at odds with the U.S., right?

Seen as a safe haven, seen as the safe place in the world for generations of people.

I'm, you know, certainly all of my family, I'm guessing, you know, most of your family, you know, they're all immigrants at some point.

And they came here in part because they thought it was safe, right?

It was a place to get away from, you know, the horrors of the old world, whatever they were.

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.