Staff ReportsThe ever-creative minds at The Nation seem to have outdone themselves this time, attempting to convince President Biden to wield his pardon power like a piñata just weeks before Trump’s triumphant return to the White House. This outlandish proposal calls for a sweeping amnesty for illegal aliens, to be expedited like a two-for-one happy hour special, right before the Democratic party gets collectively booted from office. Because, after all, why wouldn’t the Democrats want to end their tenure with a chaotic flip-flop that only serves to highlight their complete disarray?
The article essentially begs Biden to throw a last-minute curveball by granting a “preemptive pardon” to all undocumented immigrants who have set foot in the country over the past two decades. It’s like announcing an early Christmas while the kids are still trying to figure out what they got in their stockings. The rationale, according to the progressively inclined writers, is to thwart the impending wave of mass deportations that a second Trump presidency would presumably bring. They claim a pardon would somehow protect these undocumented folks and spare them from the moral panic they so fear.
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This new strategy, however, seems less about providing real solutions and more about pushing the panic button for political gain. Here lies The Nation’s brilliant idea: further complicating the immigration enforcement landscape just as the opposition party seems poised for a comeback. Instead of presenting rational arguments on immigration policy, this radical plan is a desperate scramble to rally the leftist base as election season looms large. The author of the article appears to be wishfully thinking that more pardons will somehow equal more votes, as if the those swayed by a blanket pardon were ever going to line up behind the Democratic party in the first place.
Kamala Harris and the gang are repeatedly portrayed as bumbling fools largely incapable of steering the party ship where it needs to go. If they really want to reconnect with voters, a mass pardon may not be the golden ticket they’re hoping for. It feels more like a Hail Mary pass that’s likely to land directly in the arms of the opposing team. The notion of appeasing voters with last-minute pardons instead of substantive policy makes about as much sense as trying to win a bake-off with no baking ingredients on hand.
And let’s not forget the irony here: the Democrats who once campaigned on stricter immigration policies now believe the answer lies in an all-inclusive free-for-all. The article seems to present this wild plan as a moral necessity, but it’s clear that this isn’t about morality; it’s about a party scrambling to find a message. If anything, it sounds like a refusal to learn from past mistakes, hoping that the same plan will somehow yield a different result.
In summary, a preemptive pardon is far from the magic bullet for Democrats facing a second Trump presidency. This idea is merely an attempt to deflect blame rather than confront a reality the party has largely created through mismanagement and an identity crisis. Pardon plans aside, the left’s inability to coherently respond to an impending shift means that they’ll likely be collecting dust on the political shelf for quite some time.
