This is such a weird country. Most Americans don't like refugees, yet 60% support the women's march against Trump?
Most American men have some connection to women. Even if gay they have mothers, grandmothers, sisters, female cousins, co-workers, etc. Few of us have connections to refugees.
Warming up to refugees takes some effort because one rarely gets to know them. I must think about Syrian refugees to come up with a reason for believing that some need sanctuary in the USA and that we should give it. Does anyone have a problem with Cubans or Vietnamese?
People are not refugees because they did something wrong -- it's because someone else did something very wrong, like take their property, outlaw their religion, deny them the jobs to which they were accustomed,or deny them some basic life (life, freedom to exercise a conscience, and basic dignity that free people take for granted.
Refugees are a tougher sell by the Left when they flee non-Communist regimes. The Right had no problem with people fleeing Commie rule especially when the Right expected those refugees to become Republican voters, and we on the Left concurred for humanitarian reasons.
Donald Trump is a jerk, but he is more obviously a jerk on some matters than on others.
