Except he isn't? It isn't the massive concrete structure he talked about, it's more of the same walls we have elsewhere. He won't be legally allowed to seize the property of American citizens in order to build it. Oh, and Mexico isn't paying for it. So... good for him for reallocating money from other stuff, I guess?
Opposing him will just lead to the trump is bullied narrative he tells us.
So....? It feels like your point is missing there. Are democrats supposed to cave because the most powerful baby in the world will cry them a whole river? To be fair, to win this one democrats likely have to do some work contrary to the shutdown scenario where they literally just had to sit there and do absolutely nothing but even this this should be a relatively easy win for them provided they make the point that using a national emergency as a powergrab to skip checks and balances is every bit as asinine as it sounds.
But theres considerable proof that there is a humanitarian crisis of the tallest order there. Sure amount of crossings is decreased but it's still a lot. People are still found dead on the american side of the wilderness there and we blatantly see people crossing on live feeds all the time.
So... you're saying Republicans will stand up to Trump then? Dude, they won't stand up to him on anything. Group loyalty is the bloodline of the Republican Party, and group loyalty is based on your fealty to President Fubar, as well as the animosity you demonstrate to people outside the group (i.e., "lazy blacks"). Failure to adhere to tribal loyalty only results in a one way ticket to getting kicked out of the party.
Trump can make it look like he's being bullied for wanting to protect USA and garner sympathy that way, as well as opposition to the Democrats, which would help him in the next election, probably.
Straight up turning on him would be weird BUT one way or the other i think we can reasonably make the case that the republican party is not entirely behind him. mcconnel clearly has little love for the guy and mostly covers trump's ass so as to protect the republican agenda. its not quite loyalty to trump. The party seems kinda divided on how trump approaches international politics, certainly there are at least some republicans in government that dislike how trump has alienated US allies while simultaneously sucking up to king jon un an putin. And perhaps the most telling part is how many republicans refuse to work for him. Seriously, how many people did trump offer the chief of staff position before someone even considered it? This is a position where presidents usually get their pick meanwhile trump had to settle for some nobody because competent republicans won't work for him. And there have been several other cases where trump's first picks for positions have gone full "nope, I am not getting on this sinking ship".
United enough that they are not divided...?
United enough that they won't work against each other and cost votes or loss of support. While they're having issues with Trump, they're still not actively trying to stop Trump, and that's what I mean by united enough. McConnell is protecting Trump, and they've all protected Kavanaugh. If a Democratic politician got the same accusation that Kavanaugh did, Democrats would be calling upon him to resign or something. That's what I mean by united enough, especially behind Trump.
Muller hasn't actually released anything on it. Most of it is just reporting on whichever tiny move muller makes any given day. Muller is basically silent on what evidence he has. And even then, 2 years isn't that long AND muller has already gotten to indictments and guilty pleas. If the investigation is actually near its end then it actually went by rather quickly. But in reality we simply have no way of knowing at which stage the investigation is in since muller hasn't said and he has no reason whatsoever to tell anyone either.
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What concerns me is Barr's ambivalent responses to questions about the investigation during his Senate hearing. At best, I see someone who's a textbook AG in terms of his approach to the law. At worse, like I said, someone who's got Drumpf's dick in his mouth.
It's hard to say, I don't really know anything about barr. At a minimum he will be under a microscope so anything even slightly suspicious would cause a fair bit of outrage. And I am inclined to thinking that IF there is anything serious in the report it would take a particularly stupid republican to even try to cover for trump. And while there might be people that would try that for trump, nothing i've read so far would suggest barr would be one. And also worth noting, while the end of the investigation does seem probable, I don't think its certain. At least based on my current understanding of the situation.