Trump's border wall is a MacGuffin
by Jonah Goldberg, Tribune Content Agency
Jan 18, 2019
3 minutes
The border wall is now a MacGuffin, and that's the problem.
A MacGuffin is a term of art in screenwriting. It's the thing the hero wants but the bad guys are trying to get, and therefore it drives the action of the story. In John Huston's "The Maltese Falcon," the Maltese Falcon is the MacGuffin. In "Raiders of the Lost Ark" it's the Ark. In "Dude, Where's My Car?" it's the
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