Yeah, I think he is.
Bear with me, I think the wall is stupid and mean. There aren’t actually a ton of emigrants coming any more, and there haven’t been since the early 00’s. It’s not a real crisis. (It never really was.)
And the anti-immigrant movement is based on cruelty. It was based on cruelty under Obama and Bush as well. A lot of outrages that came to light in the early Trump reign were actually things that happened under Obama. That said, Trump has, as with so many things, made it worse.
But Trump campaigned on the wall. If he had a main any campaign promise at all, it was to build the wall.
People voted for him, elected him, expecting him to build the wall.
People should, I believe, get what they vote for. At the least they should be able to expect the people they voted for to fight for whatever they promised.
Trump is doing that, and I would go so far as to say he should do it.
Other politicians, who promised to oppose him, should do so, though I fear the hypocrisy meter is pretty high on both Republicans and Democrats on this issue: Many who oppose him now have voted for border walls in the past, there’s plenty of already existing wall, etc.
Is all this worth shutting the government down over? Not to me, not to most of my readers, I’m sure.
But it was Trump’s main promise, and he should fight for it.
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