Let's talk about children in cages. You know what children in cages I'm talking about? I'm talking about the poor Democrats whose policies are childlike and they can't get out of that little cage. So the Democrats like to have policies that are opposing the president that are not complete policies, meaning that they're feverishly, fervently pushing policies that would only make sense to a child because it's either all the costs or all the benefits but it's only looking at half of the situation.

Let me give you an example. When I was a little kid, I don't know if I was five or how old I was, I insisted that my father build me an airplane. Now I didn't want something that looked like an airplane. I wanted him to build me an airplane out of wood because he had some carpentry skills. So I thought, well how hard could it be to build an airplane? So I bugged my father until he built some kind of a little toy airplane that I could sit in that didn't actually fly. But it was the best he could do, the best anybody could do with carpentry. And that was sort of my childlike view: I don't see why an airplane can't be built by my father. How hard could it be, right? A child's view.

Likewise when you say stuff like, hey let's just sign a piece of paper and then all the children will be kept together, that's sort of like building an airplane out of wood you found in the backyard. I lived in the country, we had wood in our backyard, don't judge me.

So because here's the thing: the separating kids and parents was done primarily to keep the children safe. So if you're asking to put them back together, are you questioning that they'll be safer apart? Because I didn't hear anybody say that. Or are you saying that you accept the fact that some of those kids will be raped and killed because they're being put back with people who are not necessarily their parents if you're going to do it quickly? Or are you imagining that the facilities to put families and kids together suddenly quadruple because somebody signed a piece of paper? Only children can think this way. Things don't happen quickly.

And the problem that President Trump found himself in is that the number of people coming across with kids skyrocketed because they learned that it was a loophole and it could get them some advantage. So you can't compare what Trump's doing to what Obama did because the scale of the problem magnified so much. Once a small problem becomes a big problem, it's kind of a different problem because the way you deal with it has to be different.

So the children in cages, metaphorically, are the Democrats who can't get out of this little box of thinking that things have easy answers and that you don't need to consider the costs. Or get rid of the army, you can end war just by let's just get rid of our military. So that would be a childlike response to ending war.

How about health care? Here's the childlike approach to health care: universal health care, done. Signed a piece of paper. Build me an airplane out of wood you found in the backyard. How hard could it be? I can say it in words. But if you were to give me universal health care, what would that look like in terms of budgets and taxes and the economy and everything else?

And by the way I've been saying for a long time I'm in favor of universal health care in the sense of universal access, but I think we get there by changing how it's delivered and bringing down the cost so that at a very low cost you could get most of what you need. You still need some insurance for the catastrophic stuff probably.

Look at almost any other issue with the Democrats. Let's take income inequality. Let's fix our income inequality, says the child in a cage. How do you do that without driving out all the capitalists? Do you just take their money and transfer it to somebody else? What does that do to incentives in the economy? Yeah, I'm not going to touch that one. But you can go down the list and you'll find that there's an adult policy which has costs and benefits. So President Trump is pushing what I would call an adult concept for immigration. An adult concept looks like this: there's something we want to accomplish which is protecting the country. It's going to have a big cost. It ain't free. But if you compare what it costs to our benefits, the benefits are bigger. That feels like an adult conversation. Even if you decide that you rank the variables differently, you're at least having an adult conversation.