Catherine Rampell: A winning theme for Democrats? Kids.

(Jacquelyn Martin | The Associated Press) Areva Gopal, 3, of Arlington, Va., center, attends a protest of families asking for the reunification of immigrant families who were separated at the border, Thursday, July 26, 2018, on Capitol Hill in Washington. The Trump administration faces a court-imposed deadline Thursday to reunite thousands of children and parents who were forcibly separated at the U.S.-Mexico border, an enormous logistical task brought on by its "zero tolerance" policy on illegal entry. After all, despite once declaring themselves the party of family values, Republican politicians have more recently ceded this territory. The GOP is now the party of state-sanctioned child abuse, of taking health care away from poor children, of leaving young immigrant “dreamers” in legal limbo.

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