It wasn’t so long ago that the absolute worst thing the government could do to a child — according to pretty much every expert, NGO and media mouthpiece on the planet — was to put that child in a “cage.” That was, as you probably remember, a major line of attack during the first Trump administration. The consensus was that Donald Trump was so evil and so unhinged that, simply for his own personal amusement, he instructed immigration officials to incarcerate children in the worst conditions imaginable, like they were animals. Things were so bad that AOC wept outside of an empty parking lot near an immigrant detention facility. Lin Manuel Miranda sang a lullaby for the Mexican children. Oprah, Rihanna, John Legend, George Clooney — the luminaries of our time — came together to formally condemn the Trump administration.
In response, conservatives made the case that children weren’t actually being placed in “cages” of any kind. They also pointed out that the alleged “cages” predated the Trump administration. And that was all true.
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