How Liberals Handed the Midterm Elections to Republicans

The headline over at the Transom this morning is “The Border is the October Surprise.”

The October Surprise, of course, is an event one party or candidate waits until the last minute to make public in the hopes of shifting the the election outcome in their direction.

The Transom quotes from Sohrab Amari’s article on the Central American caravan heading for the U.S. border:

And make no mistake: This is an organized effort. A Mexico-based outfit called Pueblos Sin Fronteras (“People Without Borders”) has been arranging route logistics and publicizing the exodus, though you’d be hard-pressed to find references to the group in most mainstream coverage of the caravanistas. Liberal reporters and editors, I suspect, think a spontaneous caravan makes for a more heart-tugging story.
“But much as Pueblos would like to disclaim responsibility, this many people don’t decide willy-nilly to travel 2,500 miles on foot, no matter how desperate they might be. Mass movement on this scale is a tremendous feat of coordination, and Pueblos has been perfecting the art for several years, long before Donald Trump’s election to the White House.

The caravan appears to be energizing Trump’s conservative/populist coalition just like the Kavanaugh confirmation process has.

If the Republicans hold Congress the Democrats will only have themselves to blame. It sure won’t be the Republicans’ commitment to liberty that put them over the top.

Read the rest of “The migrant caravan is just making our borders stronger.”