The New Yorker:

Three cheers for Laura Bush. In an op-ed for the Washington Post that, on Sunday night, landed on the White House lawn like a howitzer shell, the former First Lady described the Trump Administration’s policy of separating children from their parents at the southern border as “cruel” and “immoral.” “Our government should not be in the business of warehousing children in converted box stores or making plans to place them in tent cities in the desert outside of El Paso,” she wrote. “These images are eerily reminiscent of the Japanese American internment camps of World War II, now considered to have been one of the most shameful episodes in U.S. history.”

Powerful words. All the more powerful because they came as other Republicans, including the Party’s leadership on Capitol Hill, were assiduously avoiding comment on the national disgrace that is playing out on the border. Although she didn’t say so explicitly, the former First Lady was clearly trying to shame the President and other senior members of the G.O.P. into changing course.

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