It creates an “us vs. Them” narrative. Like christians and muslims or arians and jews. Oldest trick in the book to get your people to comply with anything.

Heavy ties to the construction industry. Like is anyone really surprised Trump, a guy whose entire career is basically building shit and find ways to hustle money out of suppliers and contractors, wanted to build a fuckoff huge wall? He has friends who will scratch his back if he scratches theirs, and it’s easy to think other republicans have doners with similar expectations.

Plus it’s an low effort attempt to fix something complex with a highly visible solution. “Look we built a wall!”

Simple, easy dumb way to transfer money from public federal funds to private contractors you are leeching off of.

I’m surprised this loser hasn’t bleached his skin white and hair blonde yet. He must really hate his heritage and the fact he was born to immigrants to overcompensate so much.

How else will they keep the ones they plan to hurt inside the country?

Did you wave to the Queen on the way past? :-D

As someone living in the U.S., yes please, let the floods take me, I am tired of existing.

To people who feel deprived of a clear social identity, Ur-Fascism says that their only privilege is the most common one, to be born in the same country. This is the origin of nationalism. Besides, the only ones who can provide an identity to the nation are its enemies. Thus at the root of the Ur-Fascist psychology there is the obsession with a plot, possibly an international one. The followers must feel besieged. The easiest way to solve the plot is the appeal to xenophobia. But the plot must also come from the inside: Jews are usually the best target because they have the advantage of being at the same time inside and outside. In the U.S., a prominent instance of the plot obsession is to be found in Pat Robertson’s The New World Order, but, as we have recently seen, there are many others.

Umberto Eco, “Ur-Fascism”