[Townhall] We all remember it. That hot, glorious day in June 2015 when billionaire real estate developer and reality TV host Donald Trump grandly descended that Trump Tower escalator and announced the beginning of his history-making journey to the most powerful office in the world. "I would build a great wall, and nobody builds walls better than me believe me, and I'll build them very inexpensively," Trump told the cheering crowd. "I will build a great, great wall on our southern border, and I will have Mexico pay for that wall."
Sure, maybe a few of us looked quizzically at our television screens and wondered how exactly a President Trump would make Mexico "pay for that wall," but that wasn’t the point. For the first time in a long time, a politician was speaking common sense to an issue that has long plagued our country by proposing a simple, cost-effective solution to the mostly uncontrolled wave of illegal immigrants pouring across our borders seemingly at will.
Could it be done? Of course! This is still America, the country that build the Empire State Building in a little more than a year. Would it be done? Or the real question - why hasn’t it been done yet? Reagan and Bush I didn’t have the vision or the foreknowledge about how big a problem it would become. Although George W. Bush had six years of a GOP Congress, he barely lifted a finger because "compassionate conservatism" always meant letting the Third World enter America en masse, not protecting the likes of Mollie Tibbetts. In 2016 we knew squishies like Jeb Bush and John Kasich weren’t about to do anything substantive to deal with the problem, so we elected Donald Trump.
And now, almost two years in, we still don’t have a wall - not because President Trump doesn’t want to do it, but rather because the will doesn’t exist in Congress.