A “stable genius”? Trump and his racist “advisors” in and out of the media prove that they’re idiots on “wall” issue

Remember when Sen. Chuck Schumer presented Donald Trump with a “sensible” horse-trade: $20 billion for his “wall” in exchange for a DACA deal almost a year ago? Trump had already rejected a bi-partisan DACA bill, which seemed a done deal until John Kelly, Stephen Miller and the other xenophobes and nativists wormed their way into Trump’s ear and persuaded him that his “base” would not accept it, and he could get a “better” deal by demanding racially-inspired reductions in immigration from certain “shit-hole” countries—that did not include India, which according to the World Health Organization has more people so poor that they have no have access to indoor toilet facilities than any other continent on the planet. 

But Trump and the Republican far-right (the free to be a-holes caucus) in the House got greedy and rejected the $20 billion in exchange for a DACA deal. And what happened? The courts turned around and blocked the implementation of the Trump/Sessions termination of the DACA program. So what did those “geniuses” accomplish? They not only lost their $20 billion for Trump’s “wall,” the DACA program is still a going concern. 

Now Trump and his “advisors”—the likes of Miller and Rush Limbaugh, Tucker Carlson, Sean Hannity, Ann Coulter, Laura Ingraham, Michelle Malkin, Jeanine Pirro and the rest of that foul infestation—are desperately engaged in shutting down 25 percent of government services for $5 billion for their “wall” which apparently is nothing more than tall spikes which one suspects Trump hopes that some asylum-seekers may think otherwise if some of their number are impaled on them (wouldn’t that be a sight for the international press, as if Trump cares; maybe Putin will congratulate him). By the way, do you notice how Fox News does such a good job of exposing women as being just as much if not even more aggressively bigoted as men?

This is what I would suggest to Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi: If Trump wants his $5 billion, he has to give the Democrats something in return, meaning a DACA law signed, sealed and delivered with no other strings attached, and then he’ll get his $5 billion. 

That’s the deal. Of course Miller and the racist far-right will be up in arms, but I suspect a majority of Trump's “base” will accept that. Not all are as completely heartless as Miller and Coulter are; a recent Associated Press story quotes one of them as saying "I  understand what (Trump's) going for — trying to keep out criminal activity. However, I think he could do much better in showing concern for these people, offering short-term help.” Schumer and Pelosi should make it plain to Trump that he is not going get just anything he wants anymore; there is a new sheriff in town, and there are no more free lunches. If he wants something, he has to give something. If he wants his $5 billion, there has to be a DACA bill attached to it. Period, end of story. Enough is enough.