Stephen Miller has the keys. Now what about the deportations?

Republicans suffered a rout on Tuesday. There is one sliver of good news, however. The remaining congressional GOP may be less divided on the issue Trump rode back into office on: mass deportation.

Even amid the carnage, voters gave Republicans a narrow edge over Democrats on immigration. In the NBC exit poll, 44% said Republicans would handle the issue better, against 41% for Democrats. That is not proof that every voter favors mass deportation. It is a rebuke to those who spent two years insisting that immigration enforcement itself had become a political loser.

Somehow Americans were expected to endure war abroad but not inconvenience at home.

I spent much of that time arguing with reporters, activists, members of Congress, and their staffers about a manufactured consensus. The