Donald Trump Has Killed Off Support for a Border Wall

I've been bemused for a while by the support for Donald Trump among hard-core anti-immigrant pundits. Mainly this is because I wonder why they think he's serious about his wall. Pretty much everything he says and does is a con job of one kind or another, and there's no real reason to think he'd stick to his guns about the wall if he became president.

Instead, since he doesn't actually care one way or the other about this, he'd probably cut a deal with Paul Ryan for some kind of comprehensive immigration reform—and it would have a far better chance of actually passing than it would if Hillary Clinton proposed it. For the anti-immigrant dead-enders, Trump is likely to be the worst possible choice.  More recently, though, I've also begun to think that Trump will be bad for the anti-immigrant crowd even if he loses. For starters, it's never good to have your signature policy associated with a loser.

More to the point, though, we all know that public support for specific policies depends a lot on who they come from. When President Obama supports something, Republicans suddenly hate it. When Trump supports something, people who dislike Trump suddenly hate it. Since Trump is dropping in the polls like a rock, this suggests that support for getting tough on immigrants might be dropping too....
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