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by ZedF » Mon Jan 28, 2019 2:59 pm
None of the issues around the wall are resolved. Trump is stuck on building a wall because that’s the promise his base is holding him to. Republicans are stuck along with him because their base forces them to be. Democrats aren’t having too much difficulty convincing most voters (crucially including independents) that extending literal walls is unnecessary, and that they have better ideas for border security more generally; moreover their base is as adamantly opposed to Trump’s wall as his base is adamantly committed to demanding it.
So I’m expecting Trump to shutdown again (won’t work any better this time) or declare emergency (will get shot down by courts, unpopular with Congressional Republicans) and lose another battle. There’s really no way out of this for him. He’s made his bed and now he’s got no choice left but to lie in it.