Call it a pivot, an evolution or a "flip-flop-flip" (though not a flip-flop).
Donald Trump has basically said, 'Never mind what I said for the past year about deporting 11 million people.'
Of course, deporting 11 million people would have been hopelessly impractical. A few months back, Conor Friedersdorf of The Atlantic told a young Trump supporter that it would take a force larger than the NYPD to accomplish such a thing.
I'm sure Trump is aware of all this and knew there was no way he could have implemented such a policy. Under normal circumstances, Trump would have waited to get into the White House to change course. But Trump is so far behind Hillary, he calculates that he has to make his "flip-flop-flip" now. The reason I refer to this as a "flip-flop-flip" is because following the 2012 election Trump was critical of Mitt Romney for his policy of "self-deportation" characterizing it as "maniacal" and "crazy".
As a result of this "flip-flop-flip", Trump is basically telling us that he takes us for chumps. And why not? A majority of Republicans were stupid enough to vote for him. If Trump fooled most of the Republicans, why shouldn't he think he can fool most of the country?
I don't think Trump is going to fool the Jorge Ramos of the world. His crowd thinks Trump is an out and out racist and nothing he can say now will change their minds. The question is what happens to Trump's supporters who flocked to him because of immigration. Are they so enthralled with him that they do anything he says? Or will this be a bridge too far? Or should I say a wall? If it's the former he's got a fighting chance. If it's the latter Hillary is headed for a landslide victory.
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