On: Chinese border guards put secret surveillance app on tourists' phones

[michaelt]

  It's atrocious, but what can you do besides
  [...] trying to persuade Trump et al. [...]
  all of these have been already said.

American politics would look very different if people who were for/against abortion, or for/against gun control, or for/against tax cuts were so quick to abandon their positions when they suffered a setback.