Nancy Pelosi stopped GWB from privatizing Social Security, got the Affordable Care Act through the House and now has kept her caucus together for the shutdown. That’s politics, not theatrics.
But I agree with you that I don’t like the tone of the thread I started. I asked as serious political question: what should Trump do? and most of the replies have been insults aimed at the President. To me, I don’t find that interesting. Even if I disagree with the President I would rather talk about his political choices and how well he acts on them. Issues of weight, hair style, clothing choices just don’t mean that much to me.
If he’s smart, and has the right folks chirping in his ear, he’d extend an olive branch to Pelosi and ask for some discussion time where they can talk about what is the best practice going forward that makes both sides happy.
If he thinks he can strong arm his way into “winning” on the wall, the government shutdown, and just everyday politics, he is not going to enjoy his time remaining in office.
Trump has a massive character defect that explains why he is a manifestly crappy negotiator. In his view, he only wins if the other side loses in any negotiation. That occassionally worked for him in the real estate world, but it doesn’t bear long term success.
He simply cannot retrain his brain to think that both sides can win.
Fair point. I do think it was notable that a number of Dem candidates said they wouldn’t support her for Speaker. Whether that was bc they thought she was a liability and that was a way to hedge against that or they genuinely didn’t support her, who knows?
