Donald Trump is never more alive than when he’s talking about the border. It’s his baby, his raison d’être, his muse. He singlehandedly changed how the Right, and ultimately the rest of the country, talks about immigration and the attendant policy. Walls, big beautiful walls — can you imagine such a term used by pre-2015 Republicans, except maybe inside of a bar that sells only domestic longnecks?

Watching Trump arrive in Texas and hit the news crews with a “Nice weather. Beautiful day. But a very dangerous border” was so on brand and exactly what most Americans want to see and hear.

It’s too bad the guy saying the words proved himself incapable of holding the highest office.

One idea: Trump should become Nikki Haley’s border czar and spend his days doing what he likes most: traveling the country, nodding at steel fence panels, and slamming Democratic immigration policy. None of the messiness of the Oval Office, just the thrill of erecting walls and stymying the crush of illegal immigration that’s transpired under the Biden administration. Trump could be the Haley administration’s John Kerry — a man made to be czar of something dear to the party’s constituents.