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This wall fight has absolutely nothing to do with border security.
This thing that’s going on — this wall / government shutdown bullshit — has exactly NOTHING to do with anything happening at the southern border. This is exclusively about the suicide pact that Trump and the GOP made together finally stretching itself to cross purposes.
The very simple way you can know that neither trump nor the GOP actually gives a fuck about border security in any real way is the fact that for the last 2 years — with single-party rule of literally ALL THREE BRANCHES OF GOVERNMENT — they did exactly NOTHING about this goddamn wall. Multiple cherry offers came and went. For fuck’s sake — they have barely spent any of the money appropriated in the last omnibus spending bill allocated for southern border security.
Because there is no security crisis. What there is is an applause line that ginned up just enough shitty racists around the margins in a low turn out election to get this pumpkinhead through the front door of the White House.
The GOP has been willing to put up with every morally, politically and intellectually bankrupt tendency of trump exclusively to get the only things the modern GOP gives a shit about — another round of sweeping, permanent tax cuts for the rich and a generational lock on the Supreme Court in hopes that it will keep some very guilty…
