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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTrump's Self-Massacre
January 7, 2019 at 8:34 am EST By Taegan Goddard
Edward Luce: Politics isnt usually this simple. But Donald Trump lives and dies by marketing slogans. In this case Build the wall! the outcome is near certain defeat. Its all the more remarkable for being self-created. The fact that he only started to care about redeeming his promise after Democrats regained the House in the midterms, makes it even more self-destructive. He had two years of Republican control to push it through and failed. Its hard to see Democrats striking almost any deal to fund a wall they revile and that even anti-immigrant hardliners concede would do little to fix Americas immigration problems As a result, Trump is hurtling with great steam into an entirely needless train wreck.
The question is why he is only now becoming serious when he has the least chance of succeeding. The charitable answer is that he didnt see the midterm election defeat coming. He tried to win that election by hyping up a crisis about an invasion of central American migrants. It backfired. This is his last chance to fund a wall. The uncharitable answer, which I think is the right one, is that Trumps politics only works in a climate of permanent frenzy. A government shutdown meets that test.
But even if he got his wall, it wouldnt redeem his election promise. The second half of his promise was and Mexico will pay for it. Two years later, Trump is holding the federal government to ransom in an attempt to force Americans to pay for it. We shouldnt overlook that irony. In the unlikely event Trump upheld his promise, he would be breaking it.
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Trump's Self-Massacre (Original Post)
DonViejo
Jan 2019
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Why did the republicans lie to America about Mexico paying for the stupid wall?
Achilleaze
Jan 2019
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Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)1. Why did the republicans lie to America about Mexico paying for the stupid wall?
Why did the republicans lie to America?
Why did the republicans lie to America?
Why did the republicans lie to America?
Lying is evil. The republicans who care can look that up in the Bible. Lying is evil.
mickswalkabout41
(145 posts)2. The better question
Why do republicans lie in general. About literally every single thing? Why?
Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)3. But now the republicans want us to pay for the stupid wall they lied about
I don't like being lied to. And I don't want to be taxed for the republican lie. The repubes promised Mexico would pay. They aren't even trying to live up to their promise. They are living up to their lies.