MICHAEL WALSH: Prizzi’s Honor, Seed of Chucky.

Trump’s best play, then, is to string out the shutdown as long as possible, keeping the pressure on the Democrats either to acknowledge the problem on the border, and the moral necessity of protecting the country from what amounts to a slow-motion invasion — a reconquista — from the Latin south, or to simply drop all pretense and come out for the abolition of the country as founded, on the grounds of, you know, racism.

As Maerose Prizzi and her consigliere are discovering, what can’t go on forever, won’t.

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