On the government shutdown.

The three day including the weekend shutdown. The POTUS has sent out a fundraising email to supporters trumpeting how Democratic senators caved in to the pressure of an angry public. It's hard to argue with his assessment apart from the last part because polls have shown that even the majority of republican voters are in favor of the dreamers who the Democratic party was supposedly defending here. Schumer etc. has screwed this all up. They had the leverage and they blinked--their knees went wobbly. Once again it shows just how weak their resistance is--how lacking in moral fibre so many of the democrats leaders are. Much of their base support is confused and angry. Certainly if you happen to be one of the dreamers you must think you've been fucked royally and not so much by your enemies as your so-called friends who seem more interested in the welfare of their bigger donors than in the welfare/wishes of the public. This is not to say that people shouldn't vote for democrats but those who cannot hold their ground should be replaced by those who will.

>1 lriley:

Exactly. BTW, polls indicate that by a small margin, most of the public place the greater blame on the Democrats--for the shutdown, rather than for "caving in" (?) to Republican insistance.

It wasn't Donald Trump who prevented Senator Sanders--woefully short of what is needed though he be--from getting a fair shot at being elected president. No, that was the work of Hillary Clinton and the Poddestas and the Obama administration, with the Hoyers, the Schumers, the Peloses, the Feinsteins--they and their minions made sure that Sanders never had a real chance.

Meanwhile, Trump, a complete beginner politically, actually had a clearer idea of what was going on in the vast parts of the country which the bi-coastal elite ignore.

The Republican party cannot be redeemed. It represents another vision of how things ought to be; but that vision is shared by a significant part of the electorate and those people are citizens, too, with the same right to try to see their political views put into effect.

That Trump could make such hash out of the Democrats in an election a decade after the still-smoking wreckage of the worst economic catastrophe in American history, with unemployment still endemic, and the distribution of wealth at one of its most unequal conditions in history---that's an unspeakable disgrace.

The betrayal of those who were counting on CHIPS or DACA is merely a feature of a far, far greater social and moral disaster.

( Rome didn't fall in a day.)

>1 lriley: Sure hope Schumer knows what he's doing--time will tell. A sin if he misplays the next month and dreamers' nightmares become real...

(Schumer's probably doesn't observe Jewish dietary laws--though he supported move to Jerusalem--but I was a little surprised that at their meeting Trump served him cheeseburger in spite of his doctor's advice. Bacon on that?)