Donald J. Trump is building a wall, but it's not along the border between the United States and Mexico. It's a wall between what Trump claims is happening in the world and reality.
In Trump's America reality exists somewhere south of that border, and we are the Mexicans he said would pay for his wall.
We're paying now, and we will continue to do so into the future. And we're paying in more than dollars. We're paying in rollbacks to freedom, justice, equality, and truth. We're paying in the degradation of the quality of the air we breathe and the water we drink. We're paying in attacks on education, and in the establishment of a foreign policy rooted in perpetual war.
Further down the road, as science is denied and petrodollars spur climate change, the cost of this wall may well include human extinction.
But hey! Isn't it great that Americans are willing to do everything necessary to enable Donald J. Trump to maintain the delusions that exist in his mind and the minds of his followers? And isn't it great that Americans are willing to make it possible for him to to live in the manner to which he has become accustomed, to underwrite the costs a lifestyle built through his ability to flimflam and swindle?
Yes, Donald J. Trump is building a wall and claiming he will make America great again.
But the word "again" in Trump's slogan has bothered me since the first time I heard it. Again implies without citing any objective evidence, that America has ceased to be great.
Well, fellow Mexican wall-builders, from what I've seen, the only credible evidence on the subject of America's greatness or lack thereof suggests that our country stopped being great the moment Donald J. Trump became president.
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