One year ago Wednesday, right-wing pundit Monica Crowley declared that the existence of the Berlin Wall—which was put out of use in 1989 after decades as a symbol of inhumanity and political failure when the country that had built it collapsed into economic and civic chaos—constituted an effective argument in favor of Donald Trump’s proposal to build a wall on the United States’ border with Mexico.
We will never forget the gift that she gave us.
