Find me a crying mother: STAT!
It’s a classic liberal-media tactic. Want to combat a conservative policy? Find individual instances that will play on the public’s heartstrings.
In a segment today on Trump’s executive order banning birthright citizenship, CNN This Morning provided a classic example of the strategy. Former Biden communications director Kate Bedingfield teed up the scenario: “I think Trump seems, uh, sometimes to be quite gleeful in pursuing policies that are, you know, hurting young children or hurting young families. You’ll continue to see, I would imagine, more and more images of women with young children crying because they don’t know what is going to happen to their kid.”
Thompson echoed that thought, that Democrats will have every incentive that we will “start seeing these images, potentially of families being split up, potentially, you…
