Why the Left Can't Get Over the Wall

    From the moment Donald Trump became President, he has been dismantling our last leader's legacy. And from that moment, Democrats have been trying to obstruct those efforts. Ironically, they have become like the Tea Party movement they so despised. Though many Democrats want their leaders to oppose Trump's agenda, few of them want to pay these officials exorbitant salaries to sit in Washington and do nothing--although that is the nature of federal jobs. But why has the border wall become the political straw that breaks the government camel's back? I believe it is because of its permanence.
     Yes, there is some concern in the party that without illegal immigration there won't be enough welfare recipients voting for Democrats, but I think there is growing realization that the demographic who aren't motivated to get jobs to feed themselves, which is a necessity, probably are not motivated enough to get out and vote, which is not. Benefit recipients and student idealists talk a good game, but they don't actually vote. The next Democratic president will certainly try to undo Trump's legacy as quickly as he has dismantled Obama's. But once the border wall is built, even if it should not prove to significantly deter crime, smugglers and terrorists, only an idiot would tear it down. Although there will never be a shortage of idiots in office.
     For one thing, most Americans have fences, lock doors, and don't open their home to strangers. It is easy for politicians to call the wall an abomination from the safety of a high security building or their gated mansion, but their constituents know walls keep us safe. The other more practical consideration is that, once built, the wall would be expensive to demolish. A legacy built with a phone and pen is almost that easy to remove, but the border wall will be a legacy to Donald Trump for generations, even centuries. The Democrats of the future can write graffiti on it, but they won't be able to remove it. It will be a tangible testimony to Trump's triumph. And that is why the left can't get over the wall.