Is Trump's MS-13 rabble rousing backfiring - or going just as planned?

[hexola]

Seems like Trump was trying to sinisterize MS-13 and make it seem like major domestic issue.

But - I've heard a bunch of these illegals on TV claiming it was MS-13 that forced them to leave their country.

Is this backfiring? Did Trump provide/promote the perfect rationale to enter illegally?

This angle might have taken them by surprise.

[renegade000]

1. I don't think it's terribly effective either way...

That was pretty much the main thrust of their political attacks in VA last year, and it went over like a lead balloon...

[NewJeffCT]

3. I'd never even heard of MS-13

until Trump brought it up for the VA election last year

[gratuitous]

2. MS-13 is gobbledygook shorthand

All it means to his idiot supporters is scary Mexicans, probably wearing oversized sombreros and crossed bandoliers. There doesn't have to be any truth to his fear-mongering, just a willingness to appear scared as justification for whatever crime against humanity the administration wants to pull off.

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

4. It's Al-Qaeda and Isis all over again. Sure they're all despicable grotesque sacks of shit. But

there isn't one of them lurking at every corner. And they don't have the power to destroy this country. That gig is already taken by the majority party in DC.