Björn af Kleen: They undermine Trumps indulging in alarmism rhetoric

That the senate – which is controlled by a republican majority – are voting against their own president announced a state of emergency is, of course, a nesa for Trump. But the setback is not entirely unexpected. The republican leaders in congress was never a supporter of Trump's state of emergency, in which $ 3.6 billion would be moved from the military budget to murbygget.

Mitch McConnell, who leads the party in the senate, spoke out long against the proposal and has been sympathetic to the senators who planned to vote against the president.

An explanation of parts of the party's right unusual independence from the president is all about the long term. Right amongst professional career politicians need to have a slightly more long-term approach to policy than the Trump, which always acts in the now. Trump want to be able to show up a wall before the election in 2020, absolutely no matter if this wall in the long term, would stop the influx of drugs, or fully independent churches.

Republicans who want to sit longer than four years in the position of power must relate to the long-term results of the reforms you vote through. Politicians in both parties also recognize the risks of using the emergency to push through political hobbyhorses. If a republican president is allowed to do it now would a democratic ditto be able to make answer with the same coin a couple of years.

That he had done what all of what he managed in the democracy threshold to initiate murbygget. He shut down large parts of the state apparatus during the six weeks and when it did not make the democrats more förhandlingsbenägna declared he an emergency – even if he is in fact the century that would justify the state of emergency at the same time admitted that it really was not necessary. Trump want to get a wall in place as quickly as possible for political reasons rather than pure safety reasons. It happened to he themselves disclose in the actual century.

But the republican dissidents are voting not only against the Trump's dream of a wall, they also undermine at the same time indulging in alarmism rhetoric that the president uses to describe the situation at the southern border in general. Trump said that voting is not just about getting a wall on location, but if the get to grips with the crime at all. Of course, to all the established politicians reduce crime. But not even all republicans were apparently convinced that the wall would have that effect.

the Outcome on the onsdagseftermiddagen shows that Trump is not omnipotent, but that the party, after all, have a great responsibility, as it sometimes is prepared to take. It is not certain that this will reduce the president's popularity among kärnväljarna. Trump, who said he's going to put their veto against the decision, can show that he is doing all he can. But självsvåldigheten does not always provide a dividend.