Politics means never having to say you’re sorry. When a party turns on its heel and walks away from a policy, it pretends nothing of note is happening and wouldn’t dream of issuing a mea culpa.

Have you noticed how quiet Democrats are about President Donald Trump’s deportation of illegal immigrants? So far, these are mostly hardened criminals, the world’s riff-raff whom the blue party argued for years must be given sanctuary from Trump so they weren’t held to account for their predations on American citizens. But Democrats don’t want to be seen that way anymore, and their foot-shuffling embarrassment while Trump flies undesirables home is part of an effort to execute a U-turn away from what lost them the White House and Capitol Hill in the November election.