Well I will probably be heckled for admitting it, but I simply had no idea Cruz was committing to a wall back in ‘12. To think of all the non-Trump supporters who have ridiculed me for believing Trump will follow through on the wall. I suppose they would say, ‘yes, but when Cruz says it, he means it.’
Who knows.
Fwiw, I believe Trump will build a wall bc there is a big payoff, personally and politically, to him for keeping this commitment. By the same token, there is a huge liability to him, personally and politically, in breaking this commitment. Plus, he just loves to build things. It’s what, as a real estate developer, he does. He’s likely salivating over the ‘deal’ he’ll pull off to get the wall built even as we speak.
Anyway, thanks again for the link. It was/is priceless.
The Trump Wall isn’t anything new...it’s been in the works to streamline and control the commodity of “workers” coming in and out across the border...it’s simply a matter of presenting it “Politically” and Who to favor that a wall is going up...but it’s been in the works for a time as means of “controlling” the border...never closing it.
I am in total agreement with you. Trump will build the wall.
I was researching the wall between India and Bangladesh and it has been so successful (modeled after the Israeli wall between Israel and Palestine) that they are now in the process of a wall between them and Pakistan, and envision one between them and Myanmar. We’re talking thousands of miles.
If it didn’t break the bank in India, of all places, then it is an easy build job for the USA. And, as you’ve said, Trump is by trade a builder. I heard him say last week that it’s far harder to build a skyscraper. (Words to that effect). I agree. How hard can a wall be? (I can buy a fence around my acreage if I want to. I wouldn’t bankrupt, and it would keep the neighbor kids away from a few danger spots I’m aware of, and it would lessen my liability...I think I’ve just talked myself into it. LOL.)
Israel swears by theirs, and those wanting to get in have a rabid, fanatical desire to kill Israelis and would get in if it were easy. It must not be easy.
I, too, believe he’ll build it, and one way or another he’ll be able to have the Mexicans pay for it. I suspect he’s speaking of tariffs.