When Donald Trump rallied his supporters on the campaign trail in 2016, no promise would get a more gleeful response than his pledge to build a wall along the southern border. "And who's gonna pay for it?" he'd ask, then bask in the shouted response from the crowd: "Mexico!"
Sensible people responded by pointing out that this was utterly preposterous, a layer of insanity slapped on top of an idea that was idiotic to begin with. Why on Earth would Mexico pay for it? We didn't need Mexican leaders to say that they'd never do it in a million years, even though they made that clear. And every time one of them said so, Trump would say to his flock, "The wall just got 10 feet higher!" More cheers.
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