Which raises the question, with autocrats like these, who needs democrats? It is possible that actual Democrats will miss the open goal that Trump has presented to them. He came to office with immigration as his strongest issue. Americans wanted violent criminals deported and border control enforced. Instead, Trump has turned ICE into a menacing paramilitary that detains five-year-olds, hauls elderly men from their homes, snatches mothers from day care centres and executes non-violent protesters. The US public is turning sharply against these methods.