Troops Set Up Concertina Wire along Rio Grande
HIDALGO – An extra layer of security now lines the Rio Grande near the Hidalgo Port of Entry.
Troops were seen setting up concertina wire along the river.
We’re told troops were sent with enough wire to cover more than 150 miles.
Watch the video above for more information.
http://www.krgv.com/story/39410042/troops-set-up-concertina-wire-along-rio-grande
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that Trump really could win. It must have brought some out, but not that remaining 46%.
Regarding them, note half of all Americans are conservative by nature. Although conservatives tend to be more reliable voters, a very large chunk of nonvoters would vote Republican if they did. (That has to include a lot of non-immigrant Hispanic conservatives with a tradition of not voting and for whom even many months of campaign insults and threats were not enough to make them vote for a white female Democratic candidate who was supported by a strong black bloc.)
That leaves probably over half of the 46% who aren't particularly conservative and who are typically white, less educated, and less affluent, and of course typically younger. Although some among the young will develop civic consciousness, most nonvoters seldom or never do get involved. This very diverse mess of people doesn't exactly average out to...average in any measure of citizenship.
After all, most came through two years of campaigning and claimed not be able to see a difference between or anything in either party worth voting for, or against. This was with a strikingly corrupt and predatory Republican congress, angry social/religous conservatives, and Trump facing off against liberal principles of equality and justice, women's and other civil rights, universal healthcare, protecting climate, affordable college and a living wage for full-time workers. A small portion, of course, were engaged radicals who eagerly soaked up all the anti-Democratic agitprop and refused to vote in outrage; those won't change.
Sigh. 
to both.
You're right, though -- of course -- that this time more are voting. The polls are so unreliable.
Until 2016 I was always an optimist, and in 2018 I'm really hoping they stand up in numbers large enough to be read as an unmistakable rejection of the nationalist and populist authoritarianism rising on the right.
