Although the partial government shutdown has been called off for three weeks, the arguments for and against the border wall continue.  Republicans keep reminding anyone who will listen that, in recent times, the Democrats have supported the building of a wall on the southern border.  That’s true, of course.  Schumer and Obama and Clinton and Feinstein and the rest of the progressive imbeciles all voted to build a wall, and never followed through.  The trick is to convince people who don’t pay much attention that you are in favor of protecting the border, without really closing up the sieve that is our southern border.   And the Democrats looked upon the open border and saw that it was good – for them.  So-called Republicans, eager to serve their Chamber of Commerce masters didn’t protest much.  The Democrat playbook never changed over the years.  They’d found the perfect formula.  Promise the sheep of the electorate anything, but deliver nothing.  Obama, Schumer and the rest all stood in front of cameras and decried illegal immigration.  It wasn’t right, it wasn’t fair.  The Democrats vowed to secure the border, but did nothing.  There were consequences.  More than 600,000 residents of Texas became crime victims at the hands of illegal aliens.  Too bad.  There were troubling recurrent stories of Americans murdered in their prime by illegals.  Regrettable,  but acceptable to the Democrats, who looked upon the open border and saw that it was good – for them.  Time passed.  And then, over the horizon came Donald Trump.  Like the Democrats, and so-called Republicans, Trump spoke out against illegal immigration, but he was different than the rest.  Trump wasn’t satisfied with just promising to secure the border.  He actually intended to do what he promised.  Think of Rocky, “He don’t know it’s damn a show, he thinks it’s a fight.”  And fight Trump did.  He talked about the wall, he gathered designs for the wall, and he actually began to build the wall that Democrats had promised 11 years before.  Something had to be done.  The Dems and Never-Trump so-called Republicans had finally found common ground for bipartisan action.  Trump must be destroyed.  If he wants a wall, there must be no wall.  If the border sieve continues to be overrun with illegals, who can’t be held, can’t he housed, can’t be financially and medically supported, and can’t simply be sent back to from whence they came, so be it.  Trump must be destroyed.  And the Democrats looked upon the chaos on the border and said that it was good – for them.  And as the Democrats continued their relentless march to the Left, their border position became easier for them.  They still said the magic words, “We are all for border security,” but added, “just without a wall.”  Walls work in Israel, and in Syria, and in Denmark, and around the Vatican, and around any number of homes and estates peopled by imbecile progressives, but not on our border.  The Border Patrol agents who have to do the dirty work say a wall is necessary, but what do they know?  Progressives always know best.  The Democrats now have moved another step away from good sense and sanity, and have declared a border wall, barrier, fence, anything that might actually stop illegals from invading our country, really, to be “immoral.”  That’s right.  Any attempt by the United States of America to preserve its sovereignty by taking steps to keep out undesirables, to have some control over who crosses our border, or to have any inkling as to who is in our nation, is immoral.  Not only immoral, racist.  A wall is immoral and racist.  A fence is immoral and racist.  Asking a question on a census form about citizenship is immoral and racist.  And once again, irony has eluded the Democrats.  Think of it.  Democrats have the colossal gall, the nerve, the big brass balls, to lecture us on morality.  When I went to law school so many years ago, I was taught that regulation of morality was a police power vested in the States.  Of course, Democrats don’t recognize federalism, or the notion that the States have powers forbidden to the federal government.  They were against State’s rights, until recently.  Under Il Duce Obama, the Dems stopped the State of Arizona from enforcing federal immigration laws.  With the advent of Trump, blue States have a new respect for State’s rights, the right of sanctuary States to ignore federal immigration laws.  These are the same people who denounced all attempts to regulate morals.  Mustn’t judge, you see.  No morals.  You should be free to do whatever you want.  Want to marry a goat, that’s OK.  You’re a boy who wants to be a girl, they’re good with it.  Can’t decide what gender you are?  Sorry, it was insensitive of us even to ask.  These are the same Democrats who just last week, celebrated a New York law that will allow abortions to be done by non-doctors, and permit infanticide up to the very time of birth.  How progressive.  Yeah, those Democrats are the ones decrying the immorality of a border wall.  Why?  Well, there’s no crisis on the border, there’s no emergency.  Really?  As this is written, illegal immigrant caravans are still marching north, and the Border Patrol just seized a truck coming in from Mexico with enough fentanyl on it to kill 57 million people.  No crisis here.  Trump wants a wall?  Can’t permit it.  The killing of innocent infants is considered moral by Democrats, but a wall that would repel fully grown criminals is not.  Somebody has gone crazy in Washington, and it’s not President Trump.