I don't really care if he gives Trump credit or not. I just think Adam's position is representative of a larger problem. It doesn't matter if Trump said strong one thousand times. If your goal was to get him to change his policy, then the reasonable position is to acknowledge that he can be influenced by the right cause and/or with the right pressure. Instead, the response is to criticize a different attribute of Trump (or by some others: the reversal itself). This seems to indicate that the goal is not policy change, but slander, more or less. Anyone that's being honest with themselves can't think this is civil political dialogue.

The reality is, if you read Trumps executive order, nothing has changed. It seems to be more of a PR move. This would be the area to be criticized, in my opinion, if I were annoyed with Trump's border policy. Most people don't read anything, they just follow the talking heads.Trump is basically trying to get a district judge to make an exemption for the children to remain with their families, but I'll believe it when I see it. Without that, he can't change what he's doing and still prosecute families crossing the border illegally. To be fair, Trump did say he expects legislation to follow (then it won't matter what the judge rules), but, again, I'll believe it when I see it.

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