How much "wall" talk can you stomach in a given week? Tweeting today, Fox News analyst Monica Crowley posted a photo of herself posing in front of the remnants of the Berlin Wall.

This is, of course, a not-so-subtle allusion to the prevalent right wing idea, most loudly bellowed by Trump, that we need to a build a wall along the U.S.-Mexican border. Crowley has been a strident supporter of both Trump and the boogeyman bedtime story Republicans tell their children to get them to have nightmares about the inherent criminality of immigrants.

Talking about immigration on The O'Reilly Factor back in April, Crowley said that it "doesn't serve our national interests to have this continuing swarm of illegal aliens." The purpose of our immigration laws, she said, "is not to be compassionate or uncompassionate [sic] to the people coming into the country illegally. The purpose of our immigration laws is to serve our national interests."

Setting aside the irony of a Fox News personality praising the literal emblem of Soviet Russia's brutal regime—the wall that Ronald Reagan so famously tore down with his own two meaty, paternal fists—the enduring lesson of the Berlin Wall, for anyone who's spent more than 10 seconds thinking about it, is that it did not, in fact, work. Whether it was through daring escape plans, or good old fashioned bribery, many managed to make it from East to West Germany during the years the wall stood. And those who didn't? They were shot on sight. Any efficacy the wall may have had was bolstered by the threat of death for those who tried to cross, and the brutal surveillance apparatus of the Stasi. Is that what she's suggesting we need more of here? It's hard to imagine otherwise. You simply cannot divest the wall from its attendant fascistic horrors. It would be like getting your photo taken in front of a train in Auschwitz and saying it's only because you're an admirer of transportation.

Crowley has spent the past hour or two walking back her photo, saying that everyone has missed the point of her tweet. What that point is, she hasn't exactly said. She retweeted a supporter who suggested she was being sarcastic, although considering she's used this same phrase before, that's hard to swallow.





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Because fences work. Hi, southern border! RT "Fences Rise Across Middle East as Jihadi Threat Escalates" http://t.co/RZkSXe6Ba7 — Monica Crowley (@MonicaCrowley) July 23, 2015

Further muddling the message, she then added another confounding dash of incongruity to the mix, by tweeting this:

Wait, do walls work or not? Maybe the lesson of the Berlin Wall is that we should build one along our border with Mexico so that some day it might be torn down and we can be reunited as one country? Perhaps this is Crowley's opening salvo for a more accepting, immigration-friendly Republican movement. That has to be her point, right? The only other option, the one that she seemed to be making, is too horrifying to even imagine. Besides, Carl's Jr. already said it best.

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