The president is now making policy by meme

Consider that not only does this masterplan not further the administration’s own stated immigration goals—it actively undermines them! Far from discouraging more Central Americans from making the long trek through Mexico to sue for asylum in the United States, the Trump White House is broadcasting that anyone who makes it will be stuck on a bus and dropped off in a jurisdiction where the local government is friendly and federal immigration enforcement will be at great pains to deport them should their asylum claims be denied.

But of course, that’s only if you treat Trump’s announcement as an actual policy proposal. And it’s not.

For the president of the United States, this isn’t a policy. It’s a meme. It’s owning the libs. It’s the ne plus ultra of a Twitter dunk that was old even before Trump took office: “If you love illegal immigrants so much, why don’t you let them come hang out in YOUR neck of the woods?”