The Lesser of Three Evils

We had a saying back in my Libertarian days, "This country doesn't need a third party, what it needs is a second party."  That's because it didn't seem to matter which party was in office because they both had almost the same agenda.  I like it better now that there is a discernable difference.  I think what happened was the two major parties made an effort to assimilate people from the extreme left and right to keep them out of the third parties.  Then Trump came along and managed to piss off people from both sides.  The Libertarians got three percent of the vote in 2016, which is at least three times what they usually get.  I think the only reason the third parties didn't do better than that is a lot of people wanted to vote against either Trump or Hillary, and the most effective way to have their vote matter was to vote for the opposite major party.  The only reason I voted for the Libertarian presidential candidate was that I didn't like either Trump or Hillary and, this way, I got to vote against both of them at once.  

I think the difference between the current caravan and the others is that this one is much larger and more determined.  Say what you want about Trump, but he has done more to control illegal immigration than any president I can think of.  If I had known that he was actually do it instead of just talk about it, I might have voted for him myself.