The Plum Line, Opinion: The real national emergency is the threat of Trump's collapse

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The Plum Line • Opinion
The real national emergency is the threat of Trump’s collapse

By Greg Sargent
Opinion writer
January 8 at 10:30 AM

President Trump appears to be moving closer to declaring a national emergency to build the wall he craves on the southern border. Whether or not he does this, the idea that we face such an emergency is his central public case for the wall, and so his commitment to this notion is a key reason we’re embroiled in a government shutdown, with all the damage it is doing.

But if you read between the lines of all the coverage, it is overwhelmingly clear that the real national emergency that Trump and his allies have discerned is an emergency that threatens him. ... The content of this emergency is obvious, and the wall is central to it, but not in the way Trump claims. Trump’s wall is his central unfilled campaign promise, but it’s also a talisman for everything that Trumpism embodies and a chief source of his bond with his base, which he will need as his legal and political travails mount.

But Trump’s public case for the wall has collapsed entirely, and much of the rest of the political system has rejected it, boxing him into a political corner with no escape. That’s the emergency. The formal declaration of a national emergency, allowing him a shot at building it unilaterally, might end up being the only way of bailing out the wall — and with it, bailing out himself.

We know all of this to be the case, because the basic facts are all out there confirming it, but it’s all so saturated in madness and bad faith that we grope for ways to convey it faithfully. The big story, which is everywhere for all to see, is that Trump and his advisers cannot justify the wall as Trump envisions it in any remotely credible way; that this is becoming harder to mask with lies; and that for Trump Nation, this really is an emergency.
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Greg Sargent writes The Plum Line blog. He joined The Post in 2010, after stints at Talking Points Memo, New York Magazine and the New York Observer. Follow https://twitter.com/theplumlinegs

[monmouth4]

1. I am envisioning this wall proposal to absolutely collapse and fail big time. tRump will throw up

his hands in frustration and blame Congress, definitely Dems and has decided he will no longer waste his time in DC. (He really needs to be working on his court appearances, etc.). He will resign in disgust with the Nation and in his mind, "I am too good for you, I tried but you rejected my ideas so I'm outta here."

[MyOwnPeace]

2. I would take that.....

just to get his destructive a$$ out and away from our government.
THEN let the courts take over and nail him for all of his illegal activities and put him away for life!

[monmouth4]

3. Now, say a rosary and our visions will hopefully come true..Bwahahahahahaaa. n/t