When this new candidate came out of nowhere, demanding that America build the wall, I knew that this was not a literal demand. Democrats and Republicans alike seemed at a loss for how to react to such an absurd campaign platform. But, unlike this new dark horse, they could not peer into what was happening in the minds of America. They could not see that those people were not merely demanding a physical wall. It was not about building a literal wall—the very idea of the wall itself was enough to begin to achieve Bannon’s aims. They were demanding the creation of America’s very own Mauer im
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