For years I have encouraged you to reject despair, to embrace optimism, and to focus on the tangible victories we are winning every single day. I stand by every word. When I see our people posting online about that familiar pit of despair in their stomach, I don’t tell them to look away. I tell them to look deeper. The “mass deportations” we were promised—a simple act of national self-preservation—have dissolved into a bureaucratic crawl, a slow-motion Vaudeville act designed to moc...