Trump just got shived by McConnell and Ryan.
He had a choice of standing firm with his base and vetoing this spending bill or signing this spending bill and alienating a huge portion of his political base.
If he vetoed the bill, we would face economic instability, a stock market crash, ObamaCare meltdown, rapid breakdown of our military, meltdown of fragile and bitterly contested diplomacy in the Middle East and North Korea and a destruction of President Trumps public approval. The losses in 2018 would insure his impeachment and removal from office.
If he signed the budget, we would have continuing economic growth, stabilization of our Obamacare disaster, success in the Middle East and North Korea, rebuilding of our military and still significant losses for Trump in 2018 - but at least the country would still be on the right track
Trump was presented with a Hobson’s Choice by a treacherous Republican leadership and he choose the best of the bad options. Both Trump and the country are in no shape for the fight the Democrats and Republicans (many of them dead enders who are bitter and vengeful for being forced out of their cushy and lucrative lifetime positions of power in November) .
Give Trump a year to keep turning things around, win public approval and consolidate his power and we will be ready to win the fight.
The reality is that we have three political movements shoehorned into a two-party system:
1. Globalists (the GOP establishment and the Clinton wing of the Democrat Party)
2. Marxists (the Bernie Sanders wing of the Democrat Party)
3. Nationalists (Trump supporters)
The Globalists are the dominant political force in Washington, and this disastrous spending bill was a perfect illustration of that.
The Nationalists have very little political power in Washington, and wouldn't even be part of the conversation except that one of their own mounted an outlandish campaign and won the 2016 presidential election.
That's where we stand, folks.
There's no reason to be disappointed when everything happens exactly as the political winds would have blown it under any circumstances.