“To their deaths, then?”

Being involved in agriculture, I still get some of my news like the generations before me, via the AM band of the radio.  Generally it is intermittent, as I get in and out of the cab.  Sound bytes mostly, delivered in a format still relatively free of commentary.  Unfortunately for you, you won’t get this one delivered the same.

The sound byte was from Jeb Bush, a candidate I thought should have dropped out of the race sometime ago.  I heard it on the day of the most recent terror attacks in Paris, only they hadn’t happened yet.  It had been delivered the night before at an Iowa campaign stop.  It was in response to Donald Trump asserting he would ship all Syrian refugees back the day he took office.

“To their deaths, then?  I mean, what does he think is going to happen to them when they get there?  This is the best answer he’s got?”

I know ardent Trump supporters who maintain the candidate is forcing a long-needed, productive conversation among the Republican party, conservatives, and the country.  Personally, I don’t ever recall a productive conversation coming from someone whose main reasoning seems to be, “trust me folks; I know what I am doing.”  In the interest of full disclosure, I don’t recall a needed one coming from those circumstances either.

Maybe it is Bush, on his way out the door, that’s going to generate it.  He’s the only one that seems to be asking questions, after all.

He seems to be asking whose life are we “pro,” and how “pro” are we going to get about it?  That is a question that has needed to be asked in both parties for sometime.  In some ways what Trump proposes the current administration already seems to have done in other ways.

Will Bush continue to ask it now, bringing the issue out in vivid color, or will he opt as Facebook did, and let that color fade a bit in favor of expediency?

I suppose there is always the chance the voters might ask it themselves.

“To their deaths, then?”