Children in cages

[Ms. Toad]

6. point, whoosh, head.

It is not an argument against Biden.

It is a caution that if you are going to try using that argument against Trump, you need to be prepared that they are going to point out that most of the early photos (that caused so much outrage) were taken when Biden was vice president - and you better have a good counter for it.

We all have confirmation bias - and most people on DU were outraged at the photos when they believed the children to have been put in cages by Trump. As soon as it was pointed out that the photos were from 2014, they were rationalized away. That doesn't work if you are using it as a primary attack on Trump - because if you can rationalize it away when Biden's name was on it, they can rationalize it away when Trump's name is on it.

There were brown children locked in cages under the BIden/Obama administration, too. ANd - it is not just that they did it too. The very photos initially used to condemn Trump were photos taken under the Obama/Biden administration. So it is not, in my opinion, an effective argument against Trump to point to children in cages.