WASHINGTON—They would stand by and let him get impeached. Or boycott his hotels. Or maybe, a couple of them suggested, they would set their Make America Great Again caps on fire.Some of the most reliably Trumpian corners of the internet were raging Thursday as if they had signed up for the left-wing resistance. Just nine days after he had made them so happy, the champion of their anti-immigration fantasies had betrayed them.In a momentous move that could have major consequences for his political future, U.S. President Donald Trump announced Thursday that he is eager to make a deal with Democrats to protect the so-called Dreamers, the undocumented young people who were brought to the U.S. illegally as children.Read the latest news on U.S. President Donald TrumpEND Not only that: he suggested that it was ridiculous that anyone would want to deport such upstanding and innocent residents. “Really!” he wrote incredulously on Twitter.Not only that: the self-proclaimed master negotiator did not plan to demand funding for his border wall as part of the deal to save the Barack Obama DREAM program (Development, Relief, and Education for Alien Minors Act) he had campaigned on eliminating. “DACA now and the wall very soon,” he said at the White House after he returned from a visit to hurricane-ravaged Florida.And not only that: he refused to refer to DACA as “amnesty,” as he did throughout his campaign and his attorney general did last week when he announced Trump was getting rid of it.“The word,” he said, “is DACA.”The details of a possible deal had not yet been hammered out. But it was immediately clear that Trump’s turnabout would be the biggest early test of the loyalty of his base, much of which is hostile to immigration of all kinds. To some of his staunchest allies, the news smacked of unforgivable abandonment. They had celebrated Trump’s decision to end DACA, thinking he had s ...
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