Michael J. Stern, a member of USA TODAY’s Board of Contributors, was a federal prosecutor for 25 years in Los Angeles and Detroit. Follow him on Twitter: @MichaelJStern1
“I’m one of you. I voted for Hillary Clinton not because she was the better of two bad choices but because I was enthusiastic about a Clinton presidency. In the past two years, I’ve donated to Democratic campaigns around the country in an effort to slow the moral corrosion that comes with every candidate who bears the Trump brand. And, as a gay Jew, I’m a member of two minority groups — three if my therapist is correct in her obsessive-compulsive disorder diagnosis.”
“ It’s a rare Democrat who calls for open borders, where immigrants who advocate violence against Americans, or who have criminal histories, can freely wander into the United States. But Democrats’ own proposals for securing the border have been delivered in such hushed tones that the party comes across as blindly objecting to all forms of border security.”
