New York Times columnist David Brooks says President Trump’s opposition has been getting dumber. He has a point.

San Francisco-based U.S. District Court judge William Alsup moved Tuesday to block the White House’s plans to phase out the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program and simultaneously provided a new example of the kind of fairy tale anti-Trump resistance Brooks referenced in his most recent column. The main thrust of Alsup’s reasoning behind reinstating DACA as it appeared on Sept. 5, 2017 can be found here on pages 46 and 47.