OPINION:
Voters, with a voice of 53 percent, say border walls aren’t immoral — meaning, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is off the mark, along with Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, along with any number of Democrats who’ve either outright agreed or intimated by their silence a border wall is an “immorality,” a hostile sign of racism or a show of supreme xenophobia.
You can take Democratic Sen. Chris Coons off this list; he said on “Fox News Sunday” he doesn’t “think a border wall is in and of itself immoral.”
But the rest of the left? Where are they on this issue?
Hunkering around Pelosi’s rigid command and control base, apparently.
Rasmussen Reports suggests this isn’t the best way to voters’ hearts, though.
“Most voters continue to favor strongly controlled borders and reject House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s charge that it is immoral for the United States to build a border wall,” Rasmussen reported in its most recent poll.
By the numbers: 53 percent of likely U.S. voters say it’s better for the country for borders to be tightly controlled. On the flip side, 39 percent say it’s best to have borders nearly like a sieve — to open them “to anyone who wants to come here as long as they are not a terrorist or a criminal,” Rasmussen said.
The survey of 1,000 likely voters was taken between Jan. 10 and Jan. 13, at a time when President Donald Trump is being blamed more than Democrats for the government shutdown — at least according to reports from The Washington Post and CNN.
But that’s not to say Americans would cede national security just to reopen government.
“Support for President Trump’s wall along the U.S.-Mexico border is at an all-time high weeks into a partial government shutdown that began over a border security dispute for funding,” the Washington Examiner reported. “According to the results of an ABC News and Washington Post poll … 42 percent of Americans support a wall. That is up from 34 percent one year ago and a previous high of 37 percent in 2017.”
Why isn’t the left listening?
Pure and simple: Democratic leaders are blowing off the citizenry for personal agenda.
Because when you look at the numbers — when you look even to common sense — Americans, with a clear majority, want border controls. And they don’t like being told they’re immoral for wanting them.
• Cheryl Chumley can be reached at cchumley@washingtontimes.com or on Twitter, @ckchumley.
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