So you wanted a government shutdown over funding Planned Parenthood. Yes?
Even though, the Senate would likely not give in ever. Let alone conveniently forgetting Trump said he would have signed the budget defunding Planned Parenthood that passed the House. The Senate would not do the same let alone, every president seemingly has funded PP since it became a political issue.
Why not? People talk about a government shutdown like it's a bad thing but it does tend to get sides talking and it gets things done in the long run.
Not to mention it would have shown he was serious about being anti-abortion instead of just paying lip service to it. And it would have rallied religious conservatives to his side.
Also, I think it was pointed out, Reagan used tarifs;
http://articles.latimes.com/1987-03-28/news/mn-698_1_tariffs
Just scattershot, hoping one of your points takes hold.
He did it one time...on Japanese tech firms that were dumping memory for computers into the U.S. market.
And his tariffs on the computer companies in Japan actually had the opposite effect of what's going on now.
You're playing fast and loose with facts hoping people won't remember the truth.
