Republicans Increasingly View Mexico as the Enemy

The Economist: “More than once, as president, Donald Trump mused about firing missiles at the drug labs of Mexican cartels. ‘No one would know it was us,’ he declared, before being talked out of the idea. Mark Esper, the then defense secretary, recounted the incident in his memoirs published last year, astonished that bombing a neighbor could be seriously thought of.”

“Now the extraordinary is becoming more commonplace as Republicans argue that greater use of military force, or the threat of it, can help control America’s southern border and curb the smuggling of fentanyl, a synthetic opioid that is produced illegally in Mexico.”