Nancy Pelosi reportedly said that for Trump, the wall is a "manhood thing." Indeed: no clear policy goal, and voters don't want it, so it's just about his ego. But it's not the only thing like that 1/ nytimes.com/2018/12/11/us/…
The Trump trade war is actually quite similar. I've been struck more and more by the absence not just of a real strategy but of a domestic constituency. Tariff Man is pretty much doing it all alone 2/
The difference is that U.S. law gives the president enormous scope for trade actions without Congressional approval. Spending billions on a wall, not so much. Not clear if Trump understand the difference, or the extent to which he's vulnerable here 3/
