But this feels worse.
On edge
The undocumented immigrant community must be on edge about going to work after the Department of Homeland Security raided food processing plants in Mississippi, detaining nearly 700 people.
It’s a reminder that undocumented immigrants play an important role in the nation’s food supply and in American communities.
CNN reported that children were separated from their families and in the dark for hours after school and feared their parents would be sent to detention centers.
“I need my dad. … He’s not a criminal,” one little girl told CNN affiliate WJTV as she cried outside the gym where those arrested by immigration authorities were processed.
Authorities, who had planned the raid for months, were proud of their work.
“Today, through the hard work of these men and women, we are once again becoming a nation of laws,” said US Attorney for the Southern District of Mississippi Mike Hurst, announcing the raids and arrests.
Numb to mass shootings
It now takes not one but two or more mass shootings to jar the country into new calls for action on gun control. And the political pressure begins almost the moment a shooting ends.
Trump tries consoling
In between his visits to Dayton and El Paso, Trump watched on TV as Joe Biden gave a speech about the threat of racism. The President tweeted that he was bored and keyed off some insults at his potential 2020 rival.
Democrats say Trump is a racist white supremacist
O’Rourke was the first Democratic presidential candidate to lay some blame for the El Paso shooting, which claimed 22 lives at a Walmart, on Trump’s immigration alarmism.
From there it has felt like a race among the candidates to see who can call Trump a racist in the most impactful way.
Their collective larger point is that a racist should not be in the White House. But it was made in the immediate aftermath of a tragic shooting and as they vie for the Democratic nomination.
Trump, meanwhile, largely ignored the issue of white extremism. He preferred to call out the media for not spending more time on the Dayton shooter, whose social media included some leftist and antifa retweets.
Trump, too, is headed for a break from the White House, to his golf club in New Jersey.
A poisoned political climate
We could all use a break from this political climate.
According to the Montana man’s lawyer, while he was remorseful for hurting the boy, he said he thought that Trump, who has made a point of defending the anthem from kneeling football players, would have wanted him to “make sure people are patriotic.”