I can't help but wonder why Trump et al actually tried this in the first place. If the plan was to keep terrorists out, then why not pick different countries - like those who have actually exported terrorists to the USA (still a bad idea but)? If the plan was to keep Muslims out, then this ban touches relatively little of the Muslim world (still a bad idea but). So, I just wonder whether it was done solely to satisfy the base OR could be the thin end of the proverbial wedge ... get this through and then and then and then... OR was it just plain ill-conceived?