The past several weeks of Immigration and Customs Enforcement crackdowns and the rising protests to stop them are proof of just how badly Trump's deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller misfired in assuming America was ready for an all-out purge of immigrants at any cost, former Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-MO) told MS NOW on Wednesday.
"The Wall Street Journal has a great TikTok of how those folks, the victims of ICE killings, get victimized," said anchor Nicolle Wallace. "That Stephen Miller, it is known someone in the White House is talking about it because they told the Wall Street Journal that before any of those statements were reviewed or fact-checked, Stephen Miller goes out there and tells the world they were 'domestic terrorists.'"
McCaskill concurred, calling it an "interesting" situation.
"I do think that a lot of the male support of Trump did turn on this thing that, you know, men are not getting their due and Trump is going to change that," she said. "And I do think that two keys to that particular voting group are their gun rights and, frankly, their ability to protect people they love. So they see this, you know, when when [we talk] about a 2-year-old girl, she was taken with her father. Her father couldn't protect her. And when you think about the 5-year-old, he was off in some holding facility in Texas with his father. And you have the U.S. Attorney in Washington, D.C., one of the most important cities in America, saying, don't show up with a gun."
"I think a lot of these things to say nothing of the visuals ... are sending a signal to a lot of people who supported Trump that maybe this isn't exactly the view of masculinity they were going for, and I think they're in political trouble over it," she said.
"And, you know, Nicolle, we always forget to mention how narrow Stephen Miller's political experience is," McCaskill added. "Michele Bachmann's presidential campaign, immigration work for Jeff Sessions in the Senate, and Donald Trump. He clearly does not have a political antenna, or he would not be making major mistakes that are going to cost Donald Trump and his party lots of seats in Congress."