On the other hand, if some private people put up some money and construct a wall, I think it becomes very easy for some level of government to say "It's unsightly, those yahoos should never have taken the step, we hereby ordain that the local section of the wall shall be taken down."
In short: I want the Federal government to step up, aknowledge its responsibilities, deliberately create the wall and make some sort of assertion that the wall is meant to be there and should not be casually dismantled later on.
Nothing is ever permanent, but (as Reagan said) government programs are close to immortal. I'd like to use that to our advantage.
I get the desire to make this enduring, but I don’t think beginning the work under private auspices leaves us cut off from that. There are legal instruments that could subsequently transfer both ownership and management of the structure to the Federal government.
Whether Democrats accepted that route, or showed up with wrecking balls to try to tear it down would be a pivotal moment, and moving forward with a private initiative is, I think, a good way to set the table to force that moment.
You’re working to pave the way to a lasting wall; I’m setting up the chess board to use the battle for that lasting barrier to either break the entire Democrat Party leadership by forcing them to fold, or to expose them all as barenaked traitors with one-way tickets to tribunals at Gitmo.
This game is life or death, and I advocate that we play for KEEPS.