Why the Donald Trump we see today was created.

They watched their wall start to crumble, and now they are desperately trying to keep it intact. Bloodied hands scramble to put the pieces back together. Not a wall with Mexico, though that wall is built from the same bricks, but the wall of power.

It’s a wall that had many things written on it. It said that you can go to our schools, but not out favorite ones. It said you can dine amongst our women, but you cannot have them. It said you can live in our city, but only where we can keep an eye on you. It said you can help elect a leader, but you cannot be one.

The day President Barack Obama was elected, there was an electric pulse that went through some very old circuits. Warning signals flared in unison all across the country. The warning was clear: It will take time, but the wall is going to collapse, and we are not prepared to see what’s on the other side.

What does someone or a group of someones do when they see their control being siphoned away? They look for the Siren singing their song the loudest. They aim their boat for the rocks and promise that the rocks will not sink them. They convince themselves that the song they’re hearing can become forceful enough to pulverize the rocks before they crash.

The wall is crumbling, and the person who promises to rebuild it the fastest gets the most enthusiastic stooges. They will take turns howling the word of the wall builder long into the night.

For the people who need the wall, no idea for reassembling the wall is too extreme while its degradation is escalating. If the holes must be filled with corpses, then the holes will be filled. If freedoms must be minimized to keep the wall strong, then freedoms will diminish.

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The day President Obama was elected, those who have benefitted from generations of men who look like them made a quiet promise to put his momentum to a halt. They said you can have the office, but not the power that comes with it.

When the wall finally does collapse, it will surely fall on some and crush them. It will crush them because they were physically holding it up right to the very end. When that happens, the man who dared to say he would keep the wall together will fade into obscurity.