Ever heard of Janet Reno? Family separations started with her . . . back in the 1990's.

Conclusion:  Turns out that hate,  death threats, AR 15 gun attacks on GOP congressmen,  and rape threats against the women of the GOP,  are not winning the hearts and minds of the nation. 
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Yes,  family separations have been going on for two decades,  so don't tell me that the Left cares about "the children."  And,  most of today's detention centers were constructed under the Obama Administration.  Here is the good news:  The Left has not lost its last election.  The current attack on our federal officials will cost the Democrat Party its political power.

Think about it.  The 2018 midterm should mirror past first term midterm elections.  The first midterm for Bill Clinton saw the Democrats lose 53 seats in the House.  The first midterm under Obama saw his radicalized party lose 64 seats in the House.  By all historic standards,  the current midterm cycle should have the Democrats 30/50 seats ahead
in terms of polling data,  yet,  the race to control  the House is {nominally} dead even.  Understand that more than 40 House Republicans are retiring in the election cycle.  Even if the Dems  win back the House,  no thinking person could call that victory a "mandate" election.  Now,  if they win back the House by 40 to 60 seats,  the "mandate" designation is definitely in play.  But a midterm victory of 2,  10, 15, or 20 seats is no mandate, and,  it is not mandate simply because such a narrow midterm election is counter to all historic averages  . . .  all historic averages.

America does not like what is going in the New Socialist Democrat Party,  and,  they have voted against this radical movement in 2010 (a recorder breaking beat-down for the Dems),  2012 where the Dems won the election but with 3.5million fewers votes than in 2008, 2014 which sent the Democrat party's political strength back to 1865,  and then,  in 2016,  when the most hated man in America beat the Dems in the national election (not just Hillary but the entire power base of the Democrat Party) and its two billion dollar investment in the 2016 election) .

Turns out that hate,  death threats, AR 15 gun attacks on GOP congressmen,  and rape threats against the women of the GOP,  are not winning the hearts and minds of the nation.