Don't forget:

6) Sanctity of marriage

7) Family values

Republicans still stand behind persecuting gays and undermining women's health and autonomy. Indiscriminate policing against non-white populations. Shoving around third world countries. Civilian casualties. And lowering taxes (for millionaires, that is; they raised mine.)

The wall's never going to happen at any effective or permanent scale. Even assuming Trump is reelected, it'll take years to plan and decades to build, go over budget by several orders of magnitude, and vast swaths of the funding will disappear. Look at California's  high-speed rail, which began a decade ago with $9 billion and ambitions to link San Diego to Sacramento, and turned into $100 billion and expected completion in the 2030's; now's it's been reduced to a route from Bakersfield to Merced. Imagine what would happen to the wall in the hands of Trump and his reptilian ilk. I'm expecting at most a few miles of cheaply-built Potemkin walls, which will fast decay. Entirely appropriate for this presidency.

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Let’s be clear on this polling stat. 83% of the independents who were watching the State of the Union approved of the speech. That’s a very different number and very different selection group from 83% of independent voters.

A key part in 'Hitter' coming to power was the muscle of his brownshirts: a non-governmental, well-armed militia. He was quite keen on arming his own paramilitary group, which dwarfed the actual German army at the time.

Whenever I listen to a Democrat (or independent) discuss gun control, they preface their discussion with 'no one is proposing to take your guns away. I believe in the second amendment.' Yet from this, you take away that they are going to take your guns away.

Finally, in terms of a dictator appearing... The real fear is if you get a leader who just steamrollers over the checks and balances, using executive power as a way to push through their own will, regardless of anyone else and incrementally curbs freedoms until finally none remains. The first rule of being a dictator is this: be in power.

 

This statement is absolutely 100% unequivocally false.  All of it.  

Every. Single. Word. 

So you base your opinion on conjecture rather than fact.  

Gotcha.  

Hopes and dreams.

A "strip of land".

That "strip of land" is miles long and miles wide.  Not something anyone who owns it is going to just give up because you assume/hope it "has no use".  Let me go in your back yard and figure out what I think is of no use and then appropriate it with very little reimbursement and absolutely no recourse all in the name of some made up "state of emergency" I created to make myself kinda sorta look like I'm living up to a bogus campaign promise about a fabricated border crisis.  I'm sure that will sit just fine with you. 

I fully expect the Republicans in both the House and the Senate to abdicate their role as a check on the President.  They've done just that since 2016.  So it's incumbent upon Democrats, state governments (California is in the process of filing a lawsuit) and the people in general to fill the role that Republicans have happily given over to this White House. 

"The Wall" isn't akin to a private fence you put up between your home and that of your next door neighbor.  It's not simply using "a strip of land" that "has no use".  For a moment let's put aside what it symbolizes and dig into the real life effect it has on a number of individuals, communities and at least one religious denomination.  

Laugh if you must about butterflies being hurt, but if you do it's because you don't understand their valuable role in our ecosystem.  They aren't just "pretty" insects.  Scoff at a cross Arizona/Mexican Indian tribe that has called the region home for much longer than Arizona has been a state let alone the US being a country.  Cast aspersions at Texas landowners not willing to give up private property they've bought and paid for just because the government wants it.  And, for good measure, throw some shade at Catholics saying a border wall violates their religious freedom because it would be built on their land. 

This is much, MUCH more than appropriating a simple "strip of land" that no one uses to build a wall that, quite frankly, very few want.