This Is On Us...

TRUMP: "With a deficit like we have with Mexico and have had for many years, closing the border will be a profit-making operation."

(That is not at all how trade works!) pic.twitter.com/jnuJpQEMfU

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) March 29, 2019

When he does it, it will hurt him. But it will hurt us first. And nobody in D.C. will do a thing about it.

I'm looking at Britain and Venezuela and America and wondering: " Why is government failing so badly?" Especially in places where it is a representative democracy.
(Although Maggie Haberman is quite trenchant on this:)

It’s almost like people around potus have realized that the details in the report might not be that great. https://t.co/QBUU0UKdBe

— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) March 29, 2019

Too little, too late, I fear.