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Democrats need to do their job and make a deal By Marc A. Thiessen January 19 at 8:44 AM It’s been more than a week since word leaked of President’s Trump’s “shithole countries” comment, but instead of moving past it and returning to the negotiating table, Democrats continue to milk Trump’s comments — posturing for the cameras to condemn his “ignorance and bigotry,” while threating to shut down the government if Trump does not immediately codify Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals as part of a short-term government funding bill. This is a manufactured crisis. DACA protections don’t begin expiring until March 5, so there is plenty of time to cut an immigration deal. However, the short-term funding bill before Congress includes a six-year reauthorization of the Children’s Health Insurance Program to provide health care for poor children. So if Democrats shut down the government in a fit of pique over what Trump reportedly said, nothing will happen to the “dreamers,” but poor children will lose their health insurance. We have a historic opportunity to make progress on illegal immigration. But to do so, Democrats need to stop behaving like a bunch of oversensitive millennials. The Oval Office isn’t a safe space, and politics doesn’t come with trigger warnings. This isn’t a college debate. Real lives are at stake. Trump isn’t going to change. And the fact is, we’ve had plenty of presidents who said worse things than Trump and yet did extraordinary things. Lyndon B. Johnson used the n-word in the Oval Office to refer to black Americans and voted against every civil rights bill that had ever come to a vote in his first 20 years in Congress. Yet he became, in the words of his biographer Robert Caro, “the greatest champion that black Americans . . . had in the White House” since Abraham Lincoln, signing the 1964 Civil Rights Act and the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Richard Nixon railed against blacks and Jews in his White House tapes. Yet as vice president he shepherded the first civil rights legislation through Congress (a bill that Johnson, then Senate majority leader, watered down, telling Southern senators, “I’m on your side, not theirs”). And as president, Nixon desegregated Southern schools, increased funding for black colleges, and signed the Voting Rights Act Amendments of 1970 and the Equal Employment Opportunity Act of 1972. The story must be told. read more 
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