It sometimes seems that journalists are determined to invert cause and effect when reporting on events that frustrate or inconvenience Democratic politicians. NBC News provided its readers with a crystalline example of this phenomenon on Wednesday when it reported on the increased attention lawmakers are devoting to the deteriorating situation at the southern border “as ‘crisis’ rhetoric spreads.”
This gets things exactly backwards. Heated political rhetoric is not responsible for creating the impression in gullible American minds that the border is a disaster; the empirical crisis at the border has convinced dispassionate observers to call it a crisis. Indeed, conditions are so acutely calamitous that the Biden administration has been compelled to break the emergency glass around an option that the president and his running mate emphatically rejected during the 2020 campaign. Much to its chagrin, the Biden administration is building the wall.
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