. . . the wall will take years to complete, and Central American migrants now pour into our country illegally, fully cognizant that under U.S. law, unlike illegal immigrants from Mexico, they cannot be immediately repatriated.  Moreover, if they claim asylum, they are guaranteed months, even years, of legal residency in the United States, often far into the interior of the country, and cared-for at taxpayer expense.

There is an ongoing debate among right-leaning thinkers. How smart — or stupid — is Donald Trump? Is he some barely animate idiot bouncing around like a Pachinko ball, hitting upon occasional success at random? Or is he the orange version of Mr. Spock, playing multi-dimensional chess with Earthlings who simply cannot comprehend his genius?