the wall is obviously not about the wall, but about keeping his faction fired up

[Kitchari]

From Josh Marshall at TPM

Many times over the last two years I’ve recalled this tag line from Slate’s Will Saletan: “The GOP is a failed state and Trump is its warlord.” Now this half applies to the country at large. It was a remarkably prescient line. It explains and illuminates so much.
Warlords rule by force rather than by law or consent. But what makes them warlords rather than state builders – steal a little and they throw you in jail, steal a lot and they make you king – is that their power does not just originate in state failure. Its perpetuation depends on it.
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His (Trump’s) hold on power depends on keeping his minority faction in a state of maximal aggrievement, activation and confrontation. That’s what this wall battle is, of course, about.
In this sense he has made the US not a failed state but a failed politics. And thus, here we are.


more at link: [link:https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/trump-warlords-and-failed-states|

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1. I already posted the same exact thought.....nt

[SharonAnn]

2. It's a "manhood thing" according to Pelosi.

[FakeNoose]

3. It's those damn red hats