“To try a border shut down right now, with courts full of weeping Wendys, is like trying to invade Japan with tanks made out of bamboo. Politics, as always, remains the art of the possible.”
That may be true. I don’t know the answer to that question. But I do know that he very vocally and specifically said that this is what he would do - next week - if Mexico did not change their policy.
Mexico said no. And Trump backs down within days. I ask you, who is strong and who is weak here? Who holds the winning hand? Trump folded, he didn’t think he held it in the face of Mexican intransigence. So why then did he make the threat? So vocally and publicly and dramatically make the threat?
If what you say is true, then Trump has transmitted his weakness and/or fakery to the entire word. That is beyond sophomoric. Is he just making it up as he goes and tomorrow he changes on a dime? That is no way to be the president of a great nation.
What you say is entirely possible and plausible. But that is even worse than the appearance on face value. If Trump knows that he lacks the political support to do anything on the border why then is he bluffing so obviously, arrogantly and publicly...only to fold immediately when called? If this is true - and I so desperately hope this is not true - then there is a part of what the Democrats say that is right about him: he doesn’t have the temperament for the job.
This looks like a bluff that failed. I don’t know what transpired in between, but it probably looked like a bunch of facts and figures that Donald Trump didn’t know about.
Anyhow, it’s not an unrecoverable error, but mending it is going to take popular support. America’s rednecks may not have to go to the border, but they are going to have to do necessary things right where they are.
We need to turn Donald Trump’s position from Jimmy Carter to Ronald Reagan in the space of a year. And I believe it will start with much kneemail to God.