Well at least you articulated some thoughts on why you think this leads to more problems. While I don’t share your assessment, we won’t have long to wait as September if around the corner.
But then I just heard that President Trump tweeted today that the government needs a “good shutdown” in September.
He’s not changed or changing. He’s up for a budget fight. This was not the time or it. This was handling the bad end of a bad stick and moving toward the front.
What fight?
Who’d be in his corner for that battle? We’re going to have 4 months of a resurgence of occupy Wall Street plus whatever rioting the liberals can drum up both racially and economically based.
Push the battle 4 months further down the election process? Give the opposition 4 months to drum up their support and organize opposition?
The threat of a shutdown is empty. Congress will override any veto. And he concedes every bit of leverage he had in negotiations.
That said, setting up the liberals into the best battlefield position, taking a weak down slope position with little in the way of resources, Trump pulls that off, then I’ll absolutely concede that he is the most masterful negotiator and politician we’ve seen in a generation.
But really, that’s looking at a massive mountain of crap and saying that with hard work, it could be fertilizer. It could have been avoided and prevented.