Out of curiosity , and curiosity alone , what will your reaction be if the wall isn ' t built ? Depends really on how it goes down , the chances of nothing happening is such that something else catastrophic will have happened like trump being killed or dems taking back full control in the midterms . It fits in too well with his the few core principles he has being jobs and justice . When you consider hillary voted for a fence , i just don ' t see him rolling all the way over to open borders , there is no upside . I read an article once where one trump supporter at one of his rallies said that the wall was more of a verbal symbol and that he ' d be ok if it wasn ' t built but the border were generally and considerably strengthened . Do you feel the same ? Well thats the thing yea , its not about a stupid slab of concrete it was always about border control , there are a lot of people out there who agree with the sentiment that if you have no border you have no country . Like it would be seen as worse i think if the wall gets built , mexico pays for it , but illegal immigration doesn ' t get cleaned up in the sense that america no longer has millions of people who are undocumented and in a legal grey area . In the end he will probably do what hes been saying , which is control the border while cracking down on people that have a criminal record . Once thats sorted , he will probably offer some kind of amnesty style deal once most people Feel like the border is under control . I mean he could go full hitler or full ghandi i guess , but that would be surprising , and the only really surprising thing I can remember about trump is that press conference his did before the 2 nd debate , I didn ' t think he had the balls to drag everything down to rock bottom . Aside from that , most things i see from him , especially these last couple weeks where hes been surprising people by backtracking on torture , climate change , immigration , Mitt Romney among many things .