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From: zax	1/20/2019 4:33:57 AM
	1 Recommendation Recommended By pocotrader of 542480

I think the beauty of the shutdown is that it has the potential to wash out the tea party / freedom caucus completely. There is simply no winning scenario for Trump. If he declares a bogus "national emergency" to fund a massive southern wall that the majority do not want, it will be tied up by legal challenges (that it definitely will not survive) long past 2020. There is no "compromise" (as if bargaining with a terrorist was acceptable) that Trump's base would allow him to offer that the Democrats would accept. The public overwhelmingly blames Trump for his shutdown. Trump's polls will continue to erode; in the end he may decide losing by attempting (and failing) to appropriate defense budget funds is preferential to backing down and admitting defeat. It just doesn't matter; it is lost in all cases. Simply put, declaring a national emergency would be just another way of Trump accepting defeat. How long Trump wants to drag on damaging the economy, hurting 900,000 innocent federal workers and watching his poll numbers circle down the toilet is an open question at this point. McConnell surviving a primary challenge will be the least of his worries if this goes on much longer.

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