When Trump is in trouble he trots out his one major trick - The Wall - or, more precisely, Be Very Afraid of Brown People. He sees impoverished and threatened families fleeing Central America as dangerous and filthy infestations which need to be turned back, with maximum cruelty preferably.
Trump is feeling the real walls, the walls of exposure and possible prosecution, closing in on him. And we can reliably count on his whipping his base into a fear frenzy as a way to rescue him.
His first statement of his campaign in 2015 was closing off the country to brown people. His big campaign push last year in the mid term elections was to create a false crisis of The Caravan of invaders coming up to infect the purity of our (white) country.
Now, once again it's The Wall, The Wall, The Wall. Shutting down the government to put up The Wall, The Wall, The Wall.
I suppose his speech, a rerun of his normal fear mongering speech repeated ad nauseum, appealed to his shrinking base, but I found it pretty - nauseating.
There is no crisis at the wall. Illegal border crossing are about a tenth of what they were in the early '00s. Most drugs come through airports. Of course, it is true that most immigrants are not white...
I do not find it comforting that our president is so weak that criticism from Rush Limbaugh and Ann Coulter will make him shut down the government and create ever growing hardship.
He is a One Trick Pony - fear brown and black people. (And I guess his other tricks are do whatever Russia or the hard right media tell him to do) Not much of a leader....
