I hope you’re right, but, as a former commander once told me, “Hope is not a strategy.” Trump was winning the PR side of the shutdown and gaining more support each time he offered a concession and the Pelosi/Schumer show rejected each concession out of hand.
http://www.theamericanmirror.com/poll-nancy-pelosi-most-unpopular-national-politician-in-america/
His only option to go it “alone” is by exercising his Article 2 emergency powers and re-allocating unobligated military construction funding (which does not, by the way, mean that Army engineer units will be building the wall). However, Jared Kushner has strongly advised Trump not to exercise his emergency powers. I guess we’ll just have to wait and see who carries the day, we the American voters or Trump’s progressive son-in-law.
RE: Trump was winning the PR side of the shutdown and gaining more support each time he offered a concession and the Pelosi/Schumer show rejected each concession out of hand.
Not sure about this -— the problem was getting dire with the Coast Guard and Air Traffic Control being affected. Flights were already being delayed because of this.
We really need to designate the Coast Guard as ESSENTIAL because they are. They should not be held hostage to any shutdown.
As for Air Traffic Control, PRIVATIZE IT like most other countries have done ( including Canada ).