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Trump's "compromise" was an act of spectacularly bad faith. We're shocked, said absolutely nobody. But this then raises once again the question of how the shutdown ends 1/ washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/…
What seems clear is that things have to get much worse before there's a resolution -- there have to be major economic losses, major disruption of life; maybe massive travel delays, maybe episodes of food poisoning, whatever 2/
At that point one of three things happen (1) Democrats cave and fund the wall (2) Trump caves (3) Republicans in the Senate cut Trump loose and allow a veto-overriding vote. Of these (1) seems unlikely -- Pelosi is made of stern stuff, & the Democratic base would go wild 3/
Maybe Trump sees his approval rating plunging and accepts reality. But he hates looking like a loser, plus he's afraid of Anne Coulter, plus he lives in a bubble in which people tell him the public is on his side 4/
But in that case the shutdown doesn't end until Trump's support is so shrunken that Mitch McConnell sees him as a dead man golfing, and is ready to throw him over the side. And things would have to get very bad indeed to reach that point 5/
Am I missing something? I hope so. But right now I can't see an end to this that doesn't first involve the economy and the general state of American life going to hell. 6/
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