printNEW COLUMN IS “Trump Barters For Borders — And Wins, Big Time.” It’s currently on the Unz Review and WND.COM.
RELATED at Townhall.com: “Why The Mighty USA Must Beg Mexico To Police Its Border.”
Excerpt:
If President Trump doesn’t waver, his border deal with Mexico will be a victory. The Mexicans have agreed to quit serving as conduits to hundreds of thousands of central Americans headed for the U.S.A.
Despite protests from Democrats, stateside—Mexico has agreed to significantly increase enforcement on its borders.
At first, Mexico was as defiant as the Democrats—and some Republicans.
Democrats certainly can be counted on to argue for the other side—any side other than the so-called sovereign people they swore to represent.
In fairness to the Democrats, Republicans are only notionally committed to the tough policing of the border. And certainly not if policing the porous border entails threatening trade tariffs against our neighborly narco-state. Some Republican senators even considered a vote to block the tariffs.
Nevertheless, to the hooting and hollering of the cretins in Congress and media, Trump went ahead and threatened Mexico with tariffs.
More than that. The president didn’t just tweet out “strong words” and taunts.
Since Mexico, the party duopoly, and his own courts have forced his hand, the president proceeded to “retrieve from his arsenal a time bomb of ruinous proportions.”
Or, so the Economist hyperventilated …
READ “Trump Barters For Borders — And Wins, Big Time,” on the Unz Review and WND.COM.
RELATED at Townhall.com: “Why The Mighty USA Must Beg Mexico To Police Its Border.”
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