Trump's critics also call the wall "medieval," a usage that seems to have been sparked by Chuck Schumer in response to the meme. Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) has repeatedly called it "a medieval border wall that is a fifth-century solution to a 21st-century problem." A Los Angeles Times headline blared that Trump wanted a wall to "hold back hordes, like a medieval royal." When people describe modern problems as "medieval," they are trying to impose a chronological distance between our times and the issue at hand. The wall won't work -- not because it's a throwback to imagined medieval barbarism, but because it's a con.

Source: CNN January 11, 2019 22:24 UTC