The real purpose of Trump’s big beautiful wall is to show power. Our guest says it’s a visceral metaphor for what the MAGAs hate; showing dominance. In his article in The Nation talking about what he calls “The Never Ending Nightmare of the Border Wall,” William DeBuys calls it a festival of waste:$41 million per mile, 8 thousand dollars a foot. Every law that protects the environment had to be waived to build the now-forgotten wall at the Mexican border. Yes immigration has slowed to a trickle but what’s worked best is human patrols and remote detection. DeBuys predicts that more than Trump’s plans for a huge arch, the wall will stand as a lasting monument to the Trump era.