How can the Democrats agree to funding a border Wall? The literal optics would be horrid, a daily reminder that somehow there was merit, not lunacy, in the central thrust of this presidency. It is the line in the sand, a bridge (ok, a wall) too far.
As for Mr. Trump, he is made wholly of ego. If sliced open, he would reveal only hot air and a pristine, unused brain. This man cannot fathom his way out of a paper bag, much less the maze he has manufactured. The Wall is his beating heart. Without it, in the warped universe he inhabits, he can only imagine the Emperor would be revealed with no clothes.
And so, we have the perfect storm. In its wake the dystopia Mr. Trump projected has become reality. The crisis he has imagined, now a wholly different, terrible crisis. Millions of lives harmed each day, government now responsible for nothing beyond chaos. Suffering the central theme of this debacle.
I have a suggestion for Mr. Trump and his psyche. Tell this country you will be the adult in the room. Tell us you can no longer allow the pain to linger. Tell us you are responsible for our emotional welfare and as such, you will end the shutdown, and abandon your vanity project. Tell us you care. Don't say you blinked. Say you led.
In Mr. Trump's world, everything is a zero sum game. Only winners and losers. Make yourself a winner, Mr. Trump. Be the bigger man.
Mr.Trump,tear down that Wall.
4 comments:
YOU RULE
Your “tear down” appeal brings “tears” to my eyes. But that his eyes and his ears could see and could hear....
EA
This has been the obvious answer. And either side can play it. The Democrats need only voice greater concern for the little people, give him his wall, openly apologize to the world -- and "our friends in Mexico" -- for this temporary un-American aberration and promise to in two years to tear the damn thing down and then get on with our being America once again. I would even enter legislation on the floor of the House for its demolition before it was even built. Let him spin his wheels and look like a fool.
GB
Another good piece. I fear it simply isn't in him.
NS
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