If the wall if "valued" as a troll alone, then that presumes it does not have tangible positive affect.
What if the Iraq war was a giant troll.
Or Obamacare.
Frankly, the parameters of your "ask" are insufficient in how ambiguous all elements are in the structure and wording of your query, including the values placed in competing "ends" and the underlying assumptions.
What if the position is PRIMARILY as a troll/trollbait?
ISN'T ambiguous and contains no underlying assumptions.
It's you that are trying to insert all the qualifiers and ambiguity.
It's cool if you don't have an answer or want to answer the actual question without qualification.
It wasn't a claim that it IS primarily a troll/troll bait or even an assumption that it is all just a giant troll. It was a question. If you want to read conclusions by me that I haven't made, that's on you.
I mean, I keep hearing how Trump is a master troll. Then I see a suggestion that on my first read seemed to be saying this might be the ultimate troll and that it's affect on illegal immigration was secondary.
I asked if that was a good thing or not?
Mega has since clarified with:
Good question but I didn't intend to suggest the wall itself has a primary physical purpose of trolling, I think it's for what he says it's for, but either by design or chance, it became a divisive topic that I think he's since purposely played up as a troll and in the end could become a massive energy suck for his opposition and I'm sure that's occurred to Bannon.
Stating that it wasn't his intent to suggest the wall itself has a primary purpose of trolling....which kind of makes my question to his statement moot.
In response to his clarification, I would say that it doesn't take a master troll to recognize that a border wall is going to be divisive. Furthermore, if anything he's played down his original position of what it will actually entail (might be a fence in some places). Finally, I don't think we'll see it become an energy magnet/salt lick with concerts at the wall and such. I think progressives will continue running around like chickens with their heads cut off following their own sectional individual pet outrages.
I don't thing Trump's primary political strength is trolling and leading progressives where he wants them to go. I think his primary political strength is his ability to have a fairly coherent messsge of "jobs, jobs, jobs" and fashion/portray all policy positions through that lens. Basically, Trump has a single solution response to any criticism.....JOBS....we're all gonna make lots of money....and that's a powerful carrot.
The more interesting potential opponents that I am watching to see how he handles is the still present block of new-cons, libertarian leaning, and establishment Republicans at the Capitol. Steam rolling progressive actions by changing executive orders and memoranda is easy.
