Blog Credo

The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.

H.L. Mencken

Tuesday, January 8, 2019

Emergency

Greg Sargent lays out the reason why the medieval border wall is an "emergency."  It's not because it's needed, but in fact precisely because they can't prove that they need it.  Or rather, there is no national security or criminal enforcement reason that makes the wall necessary, only political realities.

There is some presumption that declaring a national emergency on the wall, then losing the case in courts (as Truman did during an actual war) would allow Trump a face-saving way out of his impasse.

Deeply stupid and deeply wrong.

No comments: