“Build that wall, build that wall,” cheered a sea of adoring fans, their faces bright red with excitement. “We’re going to build a wall. It will be a real wall,” proclaimed the soon-to-be president of the United States. “It’s going to happen!”
The border wall is perhaps the most notorious electoral promise of the modern era, a symbol of the politics of racial division made corporeal. Throughout his 2016 campaign, Donald Trump promised to build a concrete wall along all 2,000 miles of the southern U.S. border. Crucially, the self-proclaimed “deal-maker” said that Mexico would be picking up the check for the entirety of the project.
Nearly a decade after Trump descended a golden escalator spouting vitriol about immigrants, there is conspicuously not a 2,000-mile-long concrete wall along the border, nor did Mexico foot the bill for the estimated $15 billion Trump spent trying to make it happen.
Now, the former president is back with a new set of fantastical infrastructure policies — this time on housing…..more
