@Sanguine @sneakypete @Axeslinger
I have already written that if he truly gives up on the wall that it is over for him. What more do you want?
Besides,Trump is tricky,and might have something up his sleeve.
Right. The wall has always been a super-high priority for Trump. The folks who say he was not sincere about that during the campaign are letting their dislike of Trump paint him as even worse than he really is. (LOL)
I think all this stuff about forcing a shutdown, then about avoiding a shutdown, then again about forcing a shutdown, is almost irrelevant to what he is going to do. He tells the Dems that he is inflexible, then tells the GOP that he is flexible, then tells the nation as a whole that he's inflexible--but I bet that in the end, he's simply going to defy Congress and use the military to build the wall with funds he already has.
All the bickering and dickering that he has encountered in the past two years has made this Constitutionally feasible, it seems to me. It's almost funny.
(By the way, I think Trump realizes that playing chicken with the Dems on the shutdown is a potentially awful idea. It's like playing chicken with a suicide bomber. It's a lose/lose proposition. We have NO leverage over the Dems. They will NEVER buckle in this matter. [They're not macho: they're crazy.])