A Town Not Big Enough

(A Town Not Big Enough)

First, a correction. When the Biden-Trump dual visits to the border, the impression was that the sojourn had already happened. That was a mistake. President Biden is making a visit to Brownsville and former President Trump is visiting Eagle Pass. As it is, Brownsville is a more quiescent sector, with less than fifty crossings in the last few days. By contrast, Trump's appearance at Eagle Pass is Ground Zero for migrant infiltration, over 2,500 over the same period.


In the "previous" entry, the one with the scheduling conflict, President Biden will be complaining about GOP in-action on the Border. He will again lament that the Senate Border Bill failed. The question that will then be asked is whether the President would need flash cards. What he might think of son Hunter's House deposition. Or how Biden did have a physical but no cognitive examination was administered. But he is going to Brownsville for a photo op in a less active section, and people can "believe" that there is no immigration crisis. 



To which former President Trump would emphatically dis-agree. Trump has just learned that the Supreme Court will examine Trump's "claims of immunity" over charges over attempted election interference. And, in getting more milage of SCOTUS, which in essence his "creation," Illinois is joining Colorado and Maine in having Trump removed from their Primary ballot. Of all the complaints that Trump is a threat to democracy, is not said threat being manifest in those who move heaven and earth to keep another Trump term from materializing ?


It was a common refrain from those classic Westerns that "that town ain't big enough" for two outlaws. That could end up in the show down to see who might be the faster draw. In this case, however, Trump would have the advantage.

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