Trump might as well be talking about putting up the wall to protect from Martian invaders. The threat is just as real. (Remember we have a net outflow of immigrants.) A wall would be just as effective. The policy would be just as clearly delusional.
But don't forget, lurking behind the idiocy of the border wall is the cruelty of Trump border policies--babies in cages, dead children, separated families, concentration camps, denial of people's basic human right to asylum, incompetence, vile conditions, brutality.
In other words, the president's border policies are cruelty rooted in racism and wrapped in a fabric of lies and sick fantasies. There should be not one dollar for the wall and if the president wants to shut down part of the government to get what he should not have, let him.
It's on him and his enablers. (And if you doubt for a minute the vileness of these policies, spend a couple minutes watching Sec. Nielsen today. She is now, alongside Trump, the face of American barbarity.)
