I saw a headline yesterday evening: “House Republicans propose $10 billion for Trump’s border wall.” Now estimates that I have seen predict that a wall would cost 15-25 billion dollars to build the wall, and that the wall, once built, would cost 750 miliion per year to maintain. $10 billion would be a mere down-payment.

But the House republicans’ proposal makes me wonder: If they think have $10 billion to piss away on the wall of Trump’s dreams, could they not redirect that $10 billion to healthcare or to education? They could, but, of course, they never would.

But I believe the Wall will never be built. Trumpy and the swindlers in the House do not really intend to build a wall. Most of them (not all by any means) are not that stupid and would never waste so much money (when they could give it to their rich friends). No, the whole Wall business is a drama they’ve been running to appeal to sub-rational and bigoted voters. There are a lot of them, and the Wall has real appeal. What will they do when Trumpy & Co. tell them that they were only kidding? How much time, energy, false hope, and rancor will have been wasted on this fantasy by then?